From: Matthew Locke <mlocke@mvista.com>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@ibmoto.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: software FP support?
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 14:36:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B37AEEC.80402@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.GSO.4.05.10106251633130.22421-100000@softail.somerset.sps.mot.com
Our (montavista) toolchain is built with softfloat. Btw, our 2.0
Journeyman release is available on our ftp site (includes glibc-2.2.3).
start with our website to find out how to download it.
http://www.mvista.com
Kumar Gala wrote:
> I was wondering what the current state of software floating point support
> was in the PowerPC embedded world.
>
> I am trying to build a glibc with soft-fp to get a /bin/sh that does not
> setup the fpu state. I was wondering if someone has already gone through
> this trouble or how people have been handling this.
>
> I know that the kernel has support for soft-fp handling which would allow
> userland and libc to still use FP code but that seems expensive.
>
> Any information would be helpful.
>
> thanks
>
> - kumar
>
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2001-06-25 21:35 software FP support? Kumar Gala
2001-06-25 21:36 ` Matthew Locke [this message]
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