Subject: Re: SETI@home clients being built
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 06/20/1999 07:58:11
On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 05:43:05PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jun 1999 07:03:18 +0900 (JST)
> Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp> wrote:
>
> > BTW, I'm not familiar with ARM, but are there no FP units
> > on all ARM processors?
>
> I think there is an optional hardware floating point frob that can
> be glued on somehow... IIRC, that's why there are floating point
> INSNs (which the kernel used to emulate, before it was all thrown
> into the arm32 libc, right?)
The StrongARM CPUs dont have an external connection from the (still internally
used for the MMU and Cache control "units") coprocessor bus, so you're out
of luck.
-is