From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755020Ab2LMMU0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Dec 2012 07:20:26 -0500 Received: from esgaroth.petrovitsch.at ([78.47.184.11]:5052 "EHLO esgaroth.petrovitsch.priv.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750819Ab2LMMUZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Dec 2012 07:20:25 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 3853 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 07:20:24 EST Subject: Re: [RFC GIT PULL] "Nuke 386-DX/SX support" changes for v3.8 From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , Alan Cox Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:15:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: <50C8D458.4050006@zytor.com> References: <20121211111026.GA26507@gmail.com> <50C8D458.4050006@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.3 (3.0.3-1.fc15) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1355397344.5337.47.camel@thorin> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-DCC--Metrics: esgaroth.petrovitsch.priv.at; whitelist Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mit, 2012-12-12 at 11:00 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: [...] > There were a *bunch* of embedded 486 clones made, some still in > production as far as I know, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of them > lacked FPU. I guess we'll see. And there is an x86 emulator written in Javascript at http://www.bellard.org/jslinux/. http://www.bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html says that it (also) lacks an FPU. Bernd -- Bernd Petrovitsch Email : bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at LUGA : http://www.luga.at