Not to follow up to myself but log() is very badly broken
with softfloat.  Fun fun...
 
> (*) My full system build with softfloat seesm to work well except
> for two cases.
> 
> - The WCPU field in top is now negative.  Must mean my system
> got faster :-)
> - ps's output is fairly fubared.  It's got a load o' spaces in the
> front of each line.
> 
> I'm investgating these of course.
> 
> If you want to try the tar file is at (for now):
> http://edoneel.chaosnet.org/download/lc040-softfloat.tgz
> 
> cheers
> 
> bruce