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On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 12:44 -0800, Dan Malek wrote:
> While it's convenient, I still don't think kernel float
> emulation should be a solution.  The tools should
> generate soft-float for the applications and libraries.

I agree, for deployement, it's definitely not a solution, though it's
very convenient for us hackers :-)

Ben.