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All Motorola 68020 and 68030 CPUs reserve the "F-line" instructions — that is, all opcodes (numeric instructions) beginning with the hexadecimal digit "F" act as traps (interupt signals) that hand control to the computer's operating (OS) system. If a 68882 is present in the system, the OS diverts these instructions for execution. If not, the OS will either call an FPU emulator to execute the instruction using 68020/68030 integer-based software code, or returns an error code to the program.
So, diverting F-lines to the CPU means that the CPU handles FPU functionality, presumably by emulating it, whereas disabling them means an error is returned when FPU instructions are called.