On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 01:42:42PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > On 10.10.2017 13:27, Martin Husemann wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 11:03:42AM +0000, co...@sdf.org wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 05:02:48AM +0000, Martin Husemann wrote: > >>> I think you are confusing things. We do not support FPU emulation in the > >>> kernel, but booting on FPU-less machines should still work (with a > >>> softfloat > >>> userland). > >> > >> I don't think we should support every esoteric case just in case someone > >> wants to complete support it. We haven't run on such machines in over a > >> decade. > > > > We have not provided a usable userland for it, but we were able to boot > > on them. > > > > The cost for this is minimal (given the overall mess of FPU save area > > sizes on x86), no point in cleaning this up. > > > > Martin > > > > Agreed, there are still users asking for no-FPU x86 support. We badly > closed one of their latest PR as wontfix...
Given that nothing materialized in the last decade, I'm agreeing with Maya here. I consider this dead code. Joerg