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From: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC GIT PULL] "Nuke 386-DX/SX support" changes for v3.8
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:15:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1355397344.5337.47.camel@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50C8D458.4050006@zytor.com>

On Mit, 2012-12-12 at 11:00 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
[...]
> There were a *bunch* of embedded 486 clones made, some still in 
> production as far as I know, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of them 
> lacked FPU.  I guess we'll see.

And there is an x86 emulator written in Javascript at
http://www.bellard.org/jslinux/.

http://www.bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html says that it (also) lacks an
FPU.

	Bernd
-- 
Bernd Petrovitsch                  Email : bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at
                     LUGA : http://www.luga.at


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-12-13 12:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-11 11:10 [RFC GIT PULL] "Nuke 386-DX/SX support" changes for v3.8 Ingo Molnar
2012-12-12 18:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-12 19:00   ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-12 22:24     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-12-13 16:05       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-13 11:15     ` Bernd Petrovitsch [this message]
2012-12-13 12:13     ` Thorsten Glaser
2012-12-13 16:23   ` Florian Fainelli

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