From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756776Ab0JAMW4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Oct 2010 08:22:56 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:33082 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756081Ab0JAMWz (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Oct 2010 08:22:55 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/18] powerpc: Add ability to build little endian kernels From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Josh Boyer Cc: Ian Munsie , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Michal Marek , Albert Herranz , paulus@samba.org, Andreas Schwab , Andrew Morton , Sam Ravnborg , Torez Smith In-Reply-To: References: <1285916771-18033-1-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com> <1285916771-18033-2-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 22:22:22 +1000 Message-ID: <1285935742.2463.85.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 07:40 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > Have you tested this support with a userspace containing floating > point instructions? I wonder if CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is going to > need work at all, and if the boards with an actual FPU (440EP, 440EPx, > 460EX, etc) would have issues. That's one of the things on the TODO list. We've tested that on a 44x with no FPU so far and made sure we built without math emu. Cheers, Ben.