Re: [Rule-list] Floating point support in slinky?

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Tuesday 16 April 2002 06:42 pm, Martin Stricker wrote:
> Hi Devon, er, Michael:
>
> On enigma-list someone asked for options for his 486/SX (without math
> coprocessor). Since Linux won't boot without an FPU, is floting point
> emulation available in the slinky boot kernel? And what about Red Hat's
> kernel which gets installed?

No it isn't compiled in, and it hadn't occured to me to add it. I have 
been using the config file from the Red Hat BOOT kernel.
I'm recompiling the kernel now, with CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION set.
This adds 66k to the kernel, but we do have the room.

It looks like the stock i386 kernel does have math emulation turned on, 
so we should be OK there.

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