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From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig)
To: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Subject: On Supporting no-FPU machines
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 23:32:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180613063217.GA12182@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180613062653.GA14518@andestech.com>

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 02:26:53PM +0800, Alan Kao wrote:
> A quick work-around is something like this:

I think we need to detect this at run time, to support a single
kernel image on systems with or without FPU.

> in fstate_restore will never be taken.  
> Actually, we don't even need those floating-point routines for no-FPU boards.  
> We would need a larger patch to make those FP code inside some __riscv_flen
> pre-processor sections.

A separate CONFIG_FPU to not build the FPU code sounds fine to me
as long as it defaults to on.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-13  6:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-13  6:26 On Supporting no-FPU machines Alan Kao
2018-06-13  6:32 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-06-13  6:47   ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-06-13  7:20     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-13  7:20       ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-13 12:29         ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-06-13 16:49           ` Darius Rad
2018-06-14  0:25           ` Alan Kao
2018-06-15 20:38 ` Palmer Dabbelt
2018-06-15 23:42   ` Andrew Waterman

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