At 8:56 Uhr -0600 19.2.2003, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>In any case, I think we should stop imposing --soft-float on everyone
>(-m68020-40 should be good enough for all fpu'd machines), and have
>the release mechanism build a 'NOFPU' kernel with --soft-float and
>without M68040.

Hmmm.

Maybe I have misunderstood the issue, but ISTR that kernels are built with
--soft-float so that fpu state does not have to preserved, since the kernel
does not touch the fpu registers.

	hauke

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