Subject: Re: NetBSD 2.0 for non FPU macs
To: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
From: Bruce ONeel <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/13/2004 12:17:45
Hi,
Thanks very much, it's PR 25086.

Along these lines 25081 probably needs to be fixed for 
non FPU macs. 

Thanks!

cheers


bruce

Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net> wrote:
> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 06:09:51 -0600 (CST)
> From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
> Subject: Re: NetBSD 2.0 for non FPU macs
> To: "Bruce O'Neel" <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
> Cc: "Michael G. Schabert" <mikeride@mac.com>, port-mac68k@NetBSD.org
> content-length: 934
> 
> On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Bruce O'Neel wrote:
> 
> > No, without my patches the -msoft-float in cflags won't work.  The first problem
> > is that there is some assembly language fadd/fsub/etc instructions scattered about.
> > The second problem is that libc needs to have a full gcc fp emulator and it doesn't
> > have that.  My patches basically take care of both of those cases.
> >
> > Thanks, I'd misunderstood Fredrick's suggestion.  My patches should allow the
> > non -msoft-float build to build as it builds now.
> >
> > How do I submit my patches?
> 
> I would recommend to pull a cvs diff against the tree, say:
> 
>   cd /usr/src
>   cvs -q diff $(cat list_of_files) > ~/floating_point.diff
> 
> Then "send-pr", and read your diff into the body of the PR with
> ":r ~/floating_point.diff". For category, I expect you should use
> pseudo-port "port-m68k". By the way, you might like to subscribe to
> the lightly trafficed "port-m68k" mailing list.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Frederick