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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: about relocs.c on x86
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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