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From: "Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: "A. Nolson" <alohanono@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: APU FPU in Virtex ppc405
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:32:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa686aa40802081132h22b91464xd150e0671ca4fc34@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47ACA4BB.6010903@gmail.com>

On Feb 8, 2008 11:51 AM, A. Nolson <alohanono@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I have just heard that Xilinx has freed the FPU module for the PPC
> architecture in EDK9.2i. WIll I be able to make it work with my
> Secretlab Linux 2.6.24rc3? Will the eldk toolchain for PPC_4xxfp work?
> Will it be just a matter of integrating it with the XPS BSP?I make an
> extensive use of floating point in my applications and this will be
> really useful.

It's been 2 years since I last played with the FPU core.  At the time
it wasn't a complete FPU so the eldk 4xxfp toolchain would not work.
I had to build my own.  I don't know if the new core is a complete
implementation.

Cheers,
g.


-- 
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-08 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-08 18:51 APU FPU in Virtex ppc405 A. Nolson
2008-02-08 19:32 ` Grant Likely [this message]
2008-02-11 11:08   ` A. Nolson
2008-02-17  7:34     ` Thomas Werne
2008-02-18 15:09       ` A. Nolson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-05-22 23:06 David H. Lynch Jr.
2008-05-22 23:14 ` Grant Likely
2008-05-22 23:47 ` Shanyuan Gao
2008-05-23  1:09 ` John Bonesio
2008-05-23  1:26   ` Ron Sass

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