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From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
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On Wednesday 06 October 2004 09:10, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Are there _any_? I would expect that a bootloader gets along nicely
> without FP instructions at all.

I agree. GRUB should not use floating point at all. Marco, can you 
describe why you need floating point?

> I think the patch is valuable not only for those machines with FPU
> disabled, but also for those with no FPU at all..

Yes.

Okuji