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Subject: Re: floating point operation of ppc
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Eugene Surovegin wrote:

>On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 07:51:31AM -0500, Greg Weeks wrote:
>  
>
>>lily wrote:
>>
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>>
>>>hi,all:
>>>i build an embedded linux on powerpc 405ep,i need execute floating
>>>point operation,and i enable "math emulate" option in kernel, i run a
>>>while(1)loop ,in the loop there was floating point expression ,after
>>>test ,i found the while (1) exit because of the floating point
>>>computation,that is the floating point can't execute on ppc
>>>stablely.Is there someone meets the same problems ,please give me some
>>>suggestion,thanks!!!
>>>      
>>>
>>The 405ep has some errata on floating point use. 
>>    
>>
>
>Are you sure it was 405ep? There is no floating point errata for this 
>chip due to the simple reason, it doesn't support floating point in 
>hardware at all.
>
>You probably confusing it with 440ep.
>
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>
You're right. It was the 440ep. The 405ep BSP is using the 4xx 
toolchain. I don't think I've ever tried the math emulator on a 405.


Greg Weeks