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From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:29:08 -0600
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] Switch from archive libraries to partial
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Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Why doesn't the Linux kernel use floating point instructions?

Because dealing with FP in a multi-tasking OS is messy.  U-Boot doesn't have
that problem.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale