Hi,

The goal of my patches is that if you set MKSOFTFLOAT to yes then you get the
softfloat build, else you get an unpreturbed normal build.

I've only tested the first of these :-)  I'll try to get some time to
test both ways.

BTW, the otherthing that needs to be built -msoft-float is the packages.
The stuff out pkg_src doesn't work reliabably otherwise.  This sadly means
another build on not such a fast system.

Thanks!

cheers

bruce

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 08:52:57PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Bruce O'Neel wrote:
> 
> > Thanks.  The problem with my fixes is that one builds two sets of binaries.
> >
> > In one case you build the normal binaries with inline f instructions.
> > In the other case you build them using -msoft-float to gcc and you have
> > no f instructions.
> >
> > This allows netbsd to work well on lc040 macs, but, of course, is slower
> > on macs with fpus.
> >
> > I'd be happy if the changes were picked up and put in, but, I suspect,
> > there needs to be some more discussion especially since my changes
> > aren't really mac68k specific, but rather m68k specific, and the
> > current users who have real FPUs don't want to give up any
> > performance given that 68k systems aren't that fast to begin with :-)
> 
> 	(apologies if been asked before)
> 	How difficult would it be to have a set of patches which can
> 	build normal or nonfpu versions of the userland, switchable
> 	with a make variable?
> 
> 	Then for 2.0 all releng need to do (once approved) is to compile
> 	up a m68ksoftfloat distribution. This opens up the can of worms
> 	which is merging the various m68k userlands... which shouldn't be
> 	_too_ difficult, but likely to take some time :)
> 
> -- 
> 		David/absolute          -- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --

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