From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Catalin Marinas Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:02:57 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] UBOOT - Arm Floating Point In-Reply-To: <44CF1300.1010106@schweigstill.de> (Andreas Schweigstill's message of "Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:38:24 +0200") References: <44CF1300.1010106@schweigstill.de> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Andreas Schweigstill 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