From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from imap.sh.mvista.com (unknown [63.81.120.155]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E6AEDDE0C for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:54:57 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <46ADFC36.5060709@ru.mvista.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:56:54 +0400 From: Sergei Shtylyov MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zhu Ebony-r57400 Subject: Re: [patch][0/5] powerpc V2 : Add support to fully comply with IEEE-754 standard References: <32F3CC26D4DAC44E8ECD07155727A46E8B7F7F@zch01exm20.fsl.freescale.net> In-Reply-To: <32F3CC26D4DAC44E8ECD07155727A46E8B7F7F@zch01exm20.fsl.freescale.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hello. Zhu Ebony-r57400 wrote: >>>>>>Did you end up getting testfloat running? I'd like to see some >>>>>>testing results before accepting these patches. I think estfloat is >>>>>>our best bet at this point. >>>>>Hi Kumar, >>>>>I looked into the testfloat suit, and found all the instructions it >>>>>tests (more than 50)should be implemented based on ASM. >>>>Don't follow? Can't you build it with the e500 compiler? >>>The TestFloat suite provided the target of 386-Win32-gcc and >>>SPARC-Solaris-gcc only, and a template for user to porting his own >>>processor. Some general instructions are implemented in C, but some >>>CPU specific instructions like evfsmul need to be implemented >>>assemblely. To build it with e500 compiler we still Have some porting >>>work to do. >>I wouldn't worry too much about the vector forms. If the >>scalar single fp and double fp test out ok the vectors are >>pretty much similar enough. >>Lets just get the scalar versions tested and work out any >>issues there. > OK, I will focus on scalar SFPF and DPFP versions first. Any progress with this patchset? WBR, Sergei