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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