Alan Cox wrote: > > > The i386 way seems reasonable, IMHO. Have a configure option to enable > > an FPU emulator. Panic upon boot if no FP hardware is available and no > > emulator is compiled in. > > Its an interesting question whether it belongs in the kernel or libc. > Discuss ;) > I favor the libc approach as it is faster. Unfortunately I don't think glibc for MIPS can be configured with --without-fp. I modified a patch to get glibc 2.0.6 working for no-fp config, but it is not a clean one. Is anybody working on that for the latest glibc 2.2? > Also we missed a trick on the x86 and I want to fix that one day, which is > to have an __fpu ELF segment so if you boot an FPU emu kernel on an fpu > box you regain 47K Ironically for MIPS you MUST have the FPU emulater when the CPU actually has a FPU. :-) Jun
