Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes

Linus Torvalds
2015-08-17T17:17:28Z

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