Re: about relocs.c on x86

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Jan 31 2008 - 12:54:03 EST


Ingo Molnar wrote:

( Hey, and maybe someone is crazy enough to try to port the math-emu code to 64-bit and boot Linux up on 64-bit with all user-space FPU ops emulated. It would be one of the most useless hacks of all times, and that certainly has a certain kind of sick appeal to it, doesnt it? ;-))


It'd take a lot of work, since the x86-64 ABI requires SSE2.

-hpa

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