From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.249]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77448DDF38 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2008 06:32:15 +1100 (EST) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c37so1054656anc.78 for ; Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:32:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:32:13 -0700 From: "Grant Likely" Sender: glikely@secretlab.ca To: "A. Nolson" Subject: Re: APU FPU in Virtex ppc405 In-Reply-To: <47ACA4BB.6010903@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <47ACA4BB.6010903@gmail.com> Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Feb 8, 2008 11:51 AM, A. Nolson 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.