[Rule-list] Floating point support in slinky?

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Tuesday 16 April 2002 07:08 pm, Michael Fratoni wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 April 2002 06:42 pm, Martin Stricker wrote:
> > Hi Devon, er, Michael:
> >
> > On enigma-list someone asked for options for his 486/SX (without math
> > coprocessor). Since Linux won't boot without an FPU, is floting point
> > emulation available in the slinky boot kernel? And what about Red
> > Hat's kernel which gets installed?
>
> No it isn't compiled in, and it hadn't occured to me to add it. I have
> been using the config file from the Red Hat BOOT kernel.
> I'm recompiling the kernel now, with CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION set.
> This adds 66k to the kernel, but we do have the room.

OK, as promised:
http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rule/slinky/slinky-v0.2.0/
They will also be uploaded to the FSF download area shortly.

Added FPU emulation to the kernel, math support in the installer (via 
'expr'), a more feature rich version of ifconfig (displays interface 
statastics, among other things), minor script clean ups, added the option 
of installing basic XFree86 packages, and the installer now checks for 
and executes 'rulerc.sh' after installing all the rpms.

There is also a directory containing updated package lists for all 
released updates as of yesterday. If you have an updated cd, you can 
install a fully updated release. To use them, simply replace the package 
lists on disk 2 with the current lists.

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