linux-kernel - Re: Math-emu kills the kernel on Athlon64 X2

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Message-ID: <20060920081541.23336.qmail@science.horizon.com>
Date:	20 Sep 2006 04:15:41 -0400
From:	linux@...izon.com
To:	sergio@...giomb.no-ip.org
Cc:	linux@...izon.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Math-emu kills the kernel on Athlon64 X2

> Fine :),  My (12 year old) 486DX2 already don't need Math-emu. I just
> don't see how in a computer like that will be installed a kernel 2.6 .
> So why code of math-emu isn't dropped ? 

Google for "386EX".  There are any number of embedded boards
based on an this FPU-less 386 which people like to run Linux on.

There's more to the world than personal computers; the fact that the
Linux kernel runs almost unmodified on most of the largest computers in
the world (http://www.top500.org/stats/27/os/) and some of the dinkiest
(http://www.research.ibm.com/WearableComputing/linuxwatch/linuxwatch.html)
is a source of considerable pride.
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