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Subject: Re: i387  Floating Point Unit (FPU) testing
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> The kernel contains some i387 FPU emulation code.
>> Is there any user land software to test the FPU emulation code?
>> I would like to be able to prove the correctness of the FPU emulation code in
>> the Linux kernel, and also port the test program to other platforms that
>> utilize FPU emulation. For example, DOS emulators like DOSBOX.
> 
> If the kernel already emulates it, you don't really need emulation in 
> userspace, no?
> 
> 	-`J'

Hum...Did you actually read my email?