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From: Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.org>
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On 8/10/10 2:31 PM, m0n0 wrote:
> Am Di, 10.08.2010, 20:14 schrieb Mark Duckworth:
>
>    
>> More, it would be nice to improve the
>> fpu support to simply use hardware if available, otherwise use soft.
>> I'm dreaming a bit but that's my thought.
>>      
> Floating Point in the kernel? Even the linux mainline kernel doesn't
> supports that by default. And why should you want it, for what... ?
>
> I guess MiNTLib could make use of such an addition,... but that's not the
> kernel, right?
>
>
>    
I wasn't specifically talking about the kernel in this instance.