[U-Boot-Users] UBOOT - Arm Floating Point

[U-Boot-Users] UBOOT - Arm Floating Point

[Carlos Coelho]

 Hi,

I am doing the following commands:

make mrproper OK
make at91rm9200dk_config OK
make u-boot and I=B4ve got the following error message:

    ...
    -Map u-boot.map -o u-boot
arm-linux-ld: ERROR: =
/usr/local/arm/3.4.1/lib/gcc/arm-linux/3.4.1/libgcc.a(_divsi3.oS) uses =
hardware FP, whereas u-boot uses software FP

The "cpu/arm920t/config.mk" file has the "-msoft-float" option set, but =
the arm-linux-gcc seems to be compiling everything for a hardware FP.

Does someone had this problem before?=20

Regards,

Carlos
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[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <000c01c6b4c9$9c59e100$7c01a8c0@corp.tasksistemas.com.br> you wrote:
> 
> arm-linux-ld: ERROR:
> /usr/local/arm/3.4.1/lib/gcc/arm-linux/3.4.1/libgcc.a(_divsi3.oS) uses
> hardware FP, whereas u-boot uses software FP

Yourr toolchain is broken.

> The "cpu/arm920t/config.mk" file has the "-msoft-float" option set, but
> the arm-linux-gcc seems to be compiling everything for a hardware FP.
> 
> Does someone had this problem before? 

Yes, and a simple search of the list archive would have told you.

Fix your toolchain.

[BTW: have you ever seen an ARM processor with FPU?]

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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[Peter Pearse]

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> 
> [BTW: have you ever seen an ARM processor with FPU?]

The VFP9-S coprocessor is an ARM enhanced numeric coprocessor that provides
IEEE
754 standard-compatible operations. Designed to be incorporated with the
ARM9E
family of cores, the VFP9-S coprocessor provides full support of
single-precision and
double-precision add, subtract, multiply, divide, and multiply with
accumulate
operations.......

(9E cores implement ARM Architecture 5TE e.g. ARM926EJS)

You did ask ;-)

Regards

Peter Pearse

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[Andreas Schweigstill]

Dear Peter!

Peter Pearse schrieb:
> Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>> [BTW: have you ever seen an ARM processor with FPU?]
> 
> The VFP9-S coprocessor is an ARM enhanced numeric coprocessor that provides

I think that Wolfgang Denk meant it very literally. The VFP9-S is just
a block for building processors; and probably there are also some
test chips. But I'm sure that most people on this list have never
held an ARM processor with an FPU in their hands and had to implement
a bootloader for it.

I remember that there were FPU boards available for the Acorn Archimedes
computers but that's quite long ago.

With best regards
Andreas

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[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <44CF1300.1010106@schweigstill.de> you wrote:
> 
> I think that Wolfgang Denk meant it very literally. The VFP9-S is just
> a block for building processors; and probably there are also some
> test chips. But I'm sure that most people on this list have never
> held an ARM processor with an FPU in their hands and had to implement
> a bootloader for it.

To be honest: I didn't even know about it.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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[Catalin Marinas]

Andreas Schweigstill <andreas@schweigstill.de> wrote:
> Peter Pearse schrieb:
>> Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>>> [BTW: have you ever seen an ARM processor with FPU?]
>> 
>> The VFP9-S coprocessor is an ARM enhanced numeric coprocessor that provides
>
> I think that Wolfgang Denk meant it very literally. The VFP9-S is just
> a block for building processors; and probably there are also some
> test chips. But I'm sure that most people on this list have never
> held an ARM processor with an FPU in their hands and had to implement
> a bootloader for it.
>
> I remember that there were FPU boards available for the Acorn Archimedes
> computers but that's quite long ago.

There are real boards (not just test chips) from ARM and some TI OMAP
platforms supporting VFP:

http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/VersatileFamily.html

-- 
Catalin

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[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <CAM-OWA1fogkJXrRjbD0000001a@cam-owa1.Emea.Arm.com> you wrote:
>
> > [BTW: have you ever seen an ARM processor with FPU?]
> 
> The VFP9-S coprocessor is an ARM enhanced numeric coprocessor that provides IEEE
> 754 standard-compatible operations. Designed to be incorporated with the ARM9E
...
> You did ask ;-)

Yes, I did. I'm glad for this information. I have  to  admit  that  I
didn't know this.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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f u cn rd ths, itn tyg h myxbl cd.

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[Woodruff, Richard]

> Fix your toolchain.
> 
> [BTW: have you ever seen an ARM processor with FPU?]

They are about.  The ARM1136/ARM1176/CortexA8 cores (ARMv6 & ARMv7) all
can have FPU via VFP.  You can find this in several TI-OMAP chips.  I
think you can also get an ARMv5 core with VFP.

Regards,
Richard W.