Re: mips SOFTFLOAT status ?

To: Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: mips SOFTFLOAT status ?
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:30:00 +0100

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:24:47AM -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:
> I'm guessing that NOFPU with kernel emulation.

Yes.

> Very different from SOFTFLOAT which means the kernel emulator isn't needed.

From what I've seen, both options NOFPU and SOFTFLOAT are needed in
kernel to be able to run userland compiled with FPU instructions.

> I've made fixes to my branch recently but it doesn't seem to be work right 
> yet.

After fixing our prototype, NOFPU+SOFTFLOAT is good enough to run ping :)

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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References:
- mips SOFTFLOAT status ?
  - From: Manuel Bouyer
- Re: mips SOFTFLOAT status ?
  - From: Martin Husemann
- Re: mips SOFTFLOAT status ?
  - From: Matt Thomas

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