Subject: Re: Port to 8xx embedded PPCs
To: None <tech-embed@netbsd.org>
From: David Querbach <querbach@realtime.bc.ca>
List: tech-embed
Date: 06/19/2000 17:49:17
> I'm not very familiar with the 8xxs, but I'm assuming they have no
> hardware floating point? If so, the soft float support we have in
> several other ports can probably be stolen -- it would be very
> straightforward.
Yes, we need software floating-point. After looking at the emulators that
come with the compiler, I instead chose to steal the one in the arm32 port
(src/sys/lib/libc/arch/arm32/fplib).
Regards,
David Querbach
Real-Time Systems Inc.