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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] arch/mips: improve help text of NaN option
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 14:56:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170717145613.3c7feb8a@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170717122255.61795-1-Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com>

Hello,

On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 13:22:54 +0100, Vicente Olivert Riera wrote:

> diff --git a/arch/Config.in.mips b/arch/Config.in.mips
> index 7dd69659d..f2b352b0b 100644
> --- a/arch/Config.in.mips
> +++ b/arch/Config.in.mips
> @@ -169,7 +169,9 @@ choice
>  	depends on BR2_mips_32r5 || BR2_mips_64r5
>  	default BR2_MIPS_ENABLE_NAN_2008
>  	help
> -	  NaN encoding to be used
> +	  MIPS supports two different NaN encodings, legacy and 2008.
> +	  Information about MIPS NaN encodings can be found here:
> +	  https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/MIPS-NaN-Encodings.html

Is it useful (and correct?) to say that the Linux kernel, built for
MIPS32r5, by default expect the 2008 NaN encoding?

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-07-17 12:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-17 12:22 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] arch/mips: improve help text of NaN option Vicente Olivert Riera
2017-07-17 12:22 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] arch/mips: improve help text of FP32 mode option Vicente Olivert Riera
2017-07-17 12:56 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2017-07-17 16:57   ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] arch/mips: improve help text of NaN option Vicente Olivert Riera
2017-07-18  7:53     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2017-07-19 19:48 ` Thomas Petazzoni

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