In <199611170656.AAA24376@solutions.solon.com> seebs@solon.com (Peter Seebach) writes:

>First off, does anything fatal happen to a machine with an FPU if I remove
>"-msoft-float" from my compile options?  Does it *help* at all to do so?
>How much floating point do we do, anyway?

It would really only make a difference with things like X servers and the
like which tend to do math calculations, and related things like image
manipulation programs. I don't think the kernel uses any floating point.

>(I'm assuming the chip labeled "68881" is an FPU.  :) )

Yes, that's the FPU - life-long companion to the 68020.

Regards,

Craig.
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