Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes

H. Peter Anvin
2015-08-17T22:18:06Z

On 08/17/2015 10:17 AM, 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.
>

I just went back and looked at my records... I can guarantee that it
worked as of 743aa456c1834f76982af44e8b71d1a0b2a82e21.

-hpa