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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] UBOOT - Arm Floating Point
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:02:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tnx3bcg3ehq.fsf@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44CF1300.1010106@schweigstill.de> (Andreas Schweigstill's message of "Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:38:24 +0200")

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-01 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-31 17:49 [U-Boot-Users] UBOOT - Arm Floating Point Carlos Coelho
2006-07-31 20:06 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-08-01  7:18   ` Peter Pearse
2006-08-01  8:38     ` Andreas Schweigstill
2006-08-01  9:28       ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-08-01 11:02       ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2006-08-01  9:26     ` Wolfgang Denk
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-31 23:17 Woodruff, Richard

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