[U-Boot] Cannot compile arm u-boot with hardfloat toolchain

Tom Rini
2015-01-05T13:37:29Z

On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 12:24:13PM +0000, B.R. Oake wrote:
> On 05/01/15 10:51, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > Ah, ok, thanks for figuring that out, so this only happens to people
> > following my sunxi-wip branch, because that commit is not upstream yet.
> >
> > So I guess I will need to fix this somehow without using 64 bit math,
> > any suggestions?
>
> EDID_DETAILED_TIMING_PIXEL_CLOCK() always returns a uint32 that is
> 10,000 times a uint16, so one way of avoiding 64-bit arithmetic would
> be to cancel out the 10,000 before the division:

Good idea!

[snip]
> I still wonder though whether a nicer way would be for the configs to be
> refactored so that -msoft-float was not set on platforms where it wasn't
> appropriate.

We've gone over this before (so there's discussions in the archive) but
in sum, no, we don't want to get into doing floating point.

--
Tom
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