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Re: Hardware requirments: Do we need Math Emulation in the i386 kernel ?



On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 09:37:34AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Herbert Xu]
> > This is not acceptable to me.  The -386 flavour in general must
> > support math emulation.
> 
> Why must it support math emulation?

So that it works on 386 machines with no coprocessor.  This is the
*generic* kernel-image that we're talking about here.
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