In September the 2.7 gold was based on FEMU, much forum bitching later and now 2.7 gold is not based on FEMU.
http://www.apollo-core.com/knowledge.php?b=2¬e=8608
Now I can't conclusively prove that the bitching had any effect, but the people claiming that FEMU was superior to emulating the 6888x natively must feel really silly now.
You really don't understand or don't want understand the fact that the FPU was in a work in progress state at this time.
Let's summing up this once again :
the FPU was always a part of the roadmap of the 68080, as the AGA integration too. At some point, the team decided to begin the work on the AGA integration. In fact, this work is allready advanced. Why the AGA and not the FPU ? Because the team always said that we need some help to write some test cases to begin the work of the integration of the FPU. Yes, the integration and not the creation, because the base of the FPU was already there since a long time. Because we didn't had the resources to make those testcases at this time, we decided to go the AGA integration road. This this as simple as that.
Then, Jari came up with the will and the competence to make FEMU. FEMU was not only a big amount of work letting all Amiga without a FPU running software demanding it, it was the needed basis for testing the hardware FPU integration too. Thanks FEMU, the team could isolate all instruction one after one to test it and to validate it into the hardware implementation. This was a big amount of work, and I can tell you that many hours/week-end was spend on this testing. Like TuKo said in the february update, more than 2400 core was compiled for this testing process.
So, no, this is not the constant bitching on the forums that brought the hardware FPU to the 68080, but the hard work first from Jari then from the whole team to make it real.
