* software FP support?
@ 2001-06-25 21:35 Kumar Gala
2001-06-25 21:36 ` Matthew Locke
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From: Kumar Gala @ 2001-06-25 21:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linuxppc-embedded
I was wondering what the current state of software floating point support
was in the PowerPC embedded world.
I am trying to build a glibc with soft-fp to get a /bin/sh that does not
setup the fpu state. I was wondering if someone has already gone through
this trouble or how people have been handling this.
I know that the kernel has support for soft-fp handling which would allow
userland and libc to still use FP code but that seems expensive.
Any information would be helpful.
thanks
- kumar
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* Re: software FP support?
2001-06-25 21:35 software FP support? Kumar Gala
@ 2001-06-25 21:36 ` Matthew Locke
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From: Matthew Locke @ 2001-06-25 21:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Kumar Gala; +Cc: linuxppc-embedded
Our (montavista) toolchain is built with softfloat. Btw, our 2.0
Journeyman release is available on our ftp site (includes glibc-2.2.3).
start with our website to find out how to download it.
http://www.mvista.com
Kumar Gala wrote:
> I was wondering what the current state of software floating point support
> was in the PowerPC embedded world.
>
> I am trying to build a glibc with soft-fp to get a /bin/sh that does not
> setup the fpu state. I was wondering if someone has already gone through
> this trouble or how people have been handling this.
>
> I know that the kernel has support for soft-fp handling which would allow
> userland and libc to still use FP code but that seems expensive.
>
> Any information would be helpful.
>
> thanks
>
> - kumar
>
>
>
>
>
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