Subject: Re: PowerBook 500-series test kernel available
To: Nicholas Riley <nriley@tiac.net>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/13/1996 20:16:23
> >That's great! Finally we've got mobile MacBSD working :-)
> Isn't it also one of the first stable '040 MacBSD too?
Yes.
> I didn't really understand what Takashi meant:
> >This MAY work on the PowerBook 520, 520c, 540, 540c with the FPU emulataion.
> I hope (pray?) it will be simple to include the FPE in the PB500 kernel if
> that is all that is needed.
The '040 is a different processor from the '030 and there may be some
differences or problems in the code gluing the exceptions to the
FPE and/or FPSP.
-allen
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