From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 References: <7bc1896521fb9a56b79b4c6c56ef8f6b@proxima.alt.za> From: Anthony Sorace Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <7bc1896521fb9a56b79b4c6c56ef8f6b@proxima.alt.za> Message-Id: <5741A3C5-8801-4320-AE8F-9C9F84BC1B48@9srv.net> Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 23:51:09 -0400 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Subject: Re: [9fans] broken floating point exceptions and fpregs Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5ca160e8-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On May 26, 2013, at 1:57, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote: > It is unreasonable to expect a community to contribute to the > development of Plan 9 if the goal posts move with the fashion... You may agree or not with Erik's position, but this is an unreasonable chara= cterization of it. It actually feels exactly backwards to me: he's proposing= we *not* move the goalposts (or move them much less). I don't believe he's s= aying not to support SSE, but rather to support it in the more modern kernel= . 386 would still be around, but putting effort into amd64 is likely the mor= e productive use of time.=