svn commit: r205307 - head/sys/i386/conf

[Steve Kargl]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 06:18:23PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> On 3/18/2010 6:16 PM, Xin LI wrote:
> >Author: delphij
> >Date: Fri Mar 19 01:16:53 2010
> >New Revision: 205307
> >URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/205307
> >
> >Log:
> >   SSE is enabled by default about 5 years ago so there is no point 
> >   pretending
> >   that we support I486 and I586 CPUs in the GENERIC kernel, users wants 
> >   these
> >   support would have to build a custom kernel to explicitly disable SSE
> >   anyways.
> >
> >   
> 
> And the crowd roars it's approval!
> 

Can you explain?  AFAIK, SSE including floating point
instructions.  Floating point operations aren't allowed
in the kernel.

-- 
Steve