Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes

Bryan O'Donoghue
2015-08-17T23:47:42Z

On 17/08/15 18:17, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 9:58 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>> That is not true. It *does* work, and I have tested it fairly recently.
>
> Ok, so it's not too badly broken. Good.
>
> Also, while it's been a long time since we needed FPU emulation on the
> i486sx, I don't recall the details of any of the (much more modern)
> IoT small cores. I *think* the base platforms are all at a Pentium
> level (ie not just FPU, but MMX), but maybe there's some reason to
> keep FP emulation alive for some platforms.
>
> Linus

Quark is pentium ISA - it has tsc, apic, fpu but, not mmx.