From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.33) id 1CF8km-0000er-C0 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2004 06:10:36 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CF8ki-0000ei-Jc for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2004 06:10:34 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CF8kh-0000eW-P0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2004 06:10:31 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CF8kh-0000eT-Hw for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2004 06:10:31 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CF8dx-0006hL-Fw for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2004 06:03:33 -0400 Received: from localhost (charlie.han.nl [145.74.66.9]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C50818710 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:59:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by localhost (charlie.han.nl [145.74.66.9]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 16523-09 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:59:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47F1286D1 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:59:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from marco.marco-g.com (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05AC6C047 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:59:17 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <87wty6sp3e.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> <20041006071029.GA31024@openbios.org> <200410061057.18208.okuji@enbug.org> From: Marco Gerards Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 09:59:30 +0000 In-Reply-To: <200410061057.18208.okuji@enbug.org> (Yoshinori K. Okuji's message of "Wed, 6 Oct 2004 10:57:18 +0200") Message-ID: <87oejg88vx.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new@vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: [ppc patch] soft-float X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 10:10:34 -0000 "Yoshinori K. Okuji" writes: > On Wednesday 06 October 2004 09:10, Stefan Reinauer wrote: >> Are there _any_? I would expect that a bootloader gets along nicely >> without FP instructions at all. > > I agree. GRUB should not use floating point at all. Marco, can you > describe why you need floating point? There is grub_ftoa and in commands/ls.c it is used to print the size of files like "2.5k" or so. -- Marco