FPU Emulation Revival for NetBSD's i486SX
This retro-computing project brings back x87 Floating-Point Unit (FPU) emulation to NetBSD's kernel, specifically for legacy 486SX processors lacking hardware FPUs. It reinstates the `MATH_EMULATE` option in NetBSD 10.x and later, reversing changes that removed this functionality. While many x87 instructions are emulated, some like `fyl2xp1`, `fxtract`, `fpatan`, and `fsqrt` remain unsupported. The project is a work in progress and may contain bugs; use at your own risk. Users need to compile the kernel themselves.
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