From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Michael Brian Willis <willis@arlut.utexas.edu>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Fedora 7 on a non FPU system
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:11:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adawsw7rwh2.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1186508561.5592.26.camel@louie> (Michael Brian Willis's message of "Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:42:41 -0500")
> Has anybody every successfully installed Fedora(or another major distro)
> on a non-FPU system? Or, does anybody know what is needed to get it
> working properly on a non FPU system?
The simplest thing to do is to use a kernel that has FPU emulation
enabled. Pretty much every ppc binary will use the FPU for spare
registers if nothing else, so your only other alternative would be to
rebuild the whole distribution.
- R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-07 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-12 17:00 Problem in compiling a kernel module Matthias Fechner
2007-03-12 18:36 ` Grant Likely
2007-03-13 4:30 ` Matthias Fechner
2007-03-13 4:55 ` Grant Likely
2007-03-13 12:55 ` Ben Warren
2007-03-14 4:33 ` Matthias Fechner
2007-03-14 6:54 ` Domen Puncer
2007-03-15 4:27 ` Matthias Fechner
2007-08-07 17:42 ` Fedora 7 on a non FPU system Michael Brian Willis
2007-08-07 19:11 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2007-08-07 19:29 ` Josh Boyer
2007-08-07 21:43 ` Clemens Koller
2007-08-08 22:18 ` Michael Brian Willis
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