RE: PATCH: (on Alpha) emulating missing instructions

Jones D (djones2@glam.ac.uk)
Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:17:16 +0100


> > We already have FPU emulation in kernel, and there
> That should probably have been in userspace.

That could be a worthwhile project at some point, as
that's a fair amount of code. The only thing that concerns
me, is that is the FP emulation code there to allow booting
on 386s with no FPU ?

Ie, without it, will the kernel boot on a PC without an FPU ?

regards,

Dave.

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