From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>,
Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: about relocs.c on x86
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:47:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A209C0.7010204@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080131101111.GB11867@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> ( Hey, and maybe someone is crazy enough to try to port the math-emu
> code to 64-bit and boot Linux up on 64-bit with all user-space FPU ops
> emulated. It would be one of the most useless hacks of all times, and
> that certainly has a certain kind of sick appeal to it, doesnt it? ;-))
>
It'd take a lot of work, since the x86-64 ABI requires SSE2.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-31 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-31 8:07 about relocs.c on x86 Yinghai Lu
2008-01-31 8:33 ` Chris Snook
2008-01-31 9:13 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-01-31 9:17 ` Chris Snook
2008-01-31 9:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-31 10:02 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-01-31 10:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-31 10:21 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-01-31 10:38 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-31 10:44 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-01-31 12:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-31 17:47 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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