On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 08:03:44AM +1100, Daniel Carosone wrote: > - Removing MATH_EMULATE from the kernel *doesn't* mean machines > without FPU can't run netbsd, or won't be supported. It just means > that they will need their binaries compiled with -msoft-float, > rather than relying on emulated cpu insructions. This will be > faster anyway, and such machines these days will be used for > special-purpose cases and will benefit in other ways from > special-purpose builds specific to their needs. If that is the only difference, then would it be a trivial (and possibly automated) to have an i386-nofpu port that tracks i386 except for the compiler option? Make a change to i386 and the automated part generates the same change in i386-nofpu. The source code would be the same, just with different binaries. Doug.