From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 14:56:13 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] arch/mips: improve help text of NaN option In-Reply-To: <20170717122255.61795-1-Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com> References: <20170717122255.61795-1-Vincent.Riera@imgtec.com> Message-ID: <20170717145613.3c7feb8a@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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