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From: Claudio Leonel <cls@elaxys.com.br>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:54:32 -0300
Subject: [Buildroot] Toolchain for  i386 with  floating point emulation
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Hi,

That's it, there is nothing to be done with the toolchain
or uClibc, we just need to configure the kernel to use math emulation !
The kernel will intercept the FPU instructions and
emulate them in software.

Thanks,

Claudio Leonel



Mats Erik Andersson wrote:
> Hi again!
> 
> Just a quick idea: In the kernel configuration there is an
> option for building floating point emulation when targeting
> to i386. Could you find some function name in that code in
> order to search for the corresponding part within uClibc?
> I will keep thinking!
> 
> Best regards          Mats E A
>