From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3B37AEEC.80402@mvista.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 14:36:44 -0700 From: Matthew Locke MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kumar Gala Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: software FP support? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 > > > > > ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/