______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: Linux Kernel 1.3.47 Uploaded Author: "mitchell"@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@MAILGW at DECPostmaster Date: 20/12/95 3:31 PM
On Tue, 19 Dec 1995, Simon Shapiro wrote: >> 2. I'd like to throw away the 387 emulation for the compiled kernel. >> Anyone knows why I should keep it there? I do not believe it to be >> necessary for the installation, but i have been wrong before. >I'm typing this on a machine with a bare 386 and no 387. I note >that the Kernel HOWTO in /usr/doc says that, with this >configuration, the question about Kernel math emulation must be >answered 'y'. Is that now outdated? No, every program compiled requires floating point as the crt.o (or something like that) does a floating point call, unless you hack that and recompile all your programs you need floating point. Note my email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (reply address is quite likely corrupt) Andrew
