From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timur Tabi Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:57:41 -0600 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] Switch from archive libraries to partial linking In-Reply-To: <20110125185417.A7E86B187@gemini.denx.de> References: <1289253872-16891-1-git-send-email-sebastien.carlier@gmail.com> <356989C7-FA92-46D5-9FB6-5F9332ECBFD5@kernel.crashing.org> <20110125063655.0331EBB0B9@gemini.denx.de> <6599F6F0-0DCA-42EE-A460-D50EE50F8274@kernel.crashing.org> <4D3EFCF2.4060706@freescale.com> <20110125182714.BCC4DBB0B9@gemini.denx.de> <4D3F1674.10509@freescale.com> <20110125185417.A7E86B187@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <4D3F1D25.4070807@freescale.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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. -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale