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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!emba-news.uvm.edu!sadye.emba.uvm.edu!wollman From: wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) Subject: Re: 386BSD/NetBSD FPU emulator ? Message-ID: <1993Aug20.201207.5244@emba.uvm.edu> Sender: news@emba.uvm.edu Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility References: <24vc8k$ltr@itu1.sun.ac.za> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 20:12:07 GMT Lines: 23 In article <24vc8k$ltr@itu1.sun.ac.za>, Andre Skarzynski <abs@cs.sun.ac.za> wrote: >I used to hack 386BSD, but have been away from it for some months now. >I remember that the Floating Point Unit emulator did not work very >well. It still doesn't. (It hasn't changed, to my knowledge.) If you want an emulator that should work properly, get the Intel-written one from Mach 3.0. It's supplied as a binary (sources are proprietary), but if you look at Mach's fpe_linkage.c and trap.c you should be able to see what needs to be done. Before I lost my PC, I considered doing this myself. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@emba.uvm.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. uvm-gen!wollman | It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people UVM disagrees. | who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant