Re: Why all glibc2 programs are FPU programs

Trevor Johnson (trevor@jpj.net)
Tue, 26 May 1998 04:09:05 -0400 (EDT)

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> Does anybody know if Linux even uses the 80287 coprocessor
> on systems with an 80386 CPU + 80287 FPU?

According to the BootPrompt-HOWTO, it does not. A comment in the
arch/i386/kernel/head.S file that comes with Linux 2.0.33 says it "checks
for 287/387".
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