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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mpc8315e-rdb: Set TARGET_FPU correct
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On 07/22/2011 10:13 AM, Saul Wold wrote:
> On 07/14/2011 09:56 PM, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> The MPC8315E has a e300c3 core in it with 'classic' or normal PPC
>> floating point.
>>
>> 'SPE' floating point is what exists on the e500v2 core.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala<galak@kernel.crashing.org>
>> ---
>> meta-yocto/conf/machine/mpc8315e-rdb.conf | 2 +-
>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/meta-yocto/conf/machine/mpc8315e-rdb.conf b/meta-yocto/conf/machine/mpc8315e-rdb.conf
>> index 095d113..3f946a0 100644
>> --- a/meta-yocto/conf/machine/mpc8315e-rdb.conf
>> +++ b/meta-yocto/conf/machine/mpc8315e-rdb.conf
>> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
>> #@DESCRIPTION: Machine configuration for running
>>
>> TARGET_ARCH = "powerpc"
>> -TARGET_FPU = "spe"
>> +TARGET_FPU = "hard"

This doesn't match the documentation:
   ./meta/conf/documentation.conf:TARGET_FPU[doc] = "Floating point option (mostly for FPU-less systems), can be 'soft' or empty
The file
   meta/classes/icecc.bbclass
seems to be the only place where TARGET_FPU="hard" means anything.

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