[U-Boot] [PATCH] Switch from archive libraries to partial linking

Timur Tabi
2011-01-25T18:57:41Z

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> But we also do not have any need for FP operations either. It would
> just add to the complexity (and to the memory foot print, especially
> on systems without FPU where we would have to provide soft-float
> libraries, plus eventually variantes for SPEv1 and SPEvv2 and
> whatever - not to mention that tghis will be needed for all the
> non-PPC architectures as well).

I think you misunderstand. I'm not saying that we should use FP instructions in
U-Boot. I'm saying that since we *don't* use FP instructions in U-Boot, we can
just turn on hard-float and avoid any incompatibility with CONFIG_POST_FPU,
because all of U-Boot will then be compiled with hard-float.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale