Re: FOSDEM thoughts

[Michael Casadevall <sonicmctails@gmail.com>]

Maybe this is a stupid question (and maybe unrelated), but how does 
Debian/ARM handle FPU issues. I know XScale requires softfloat, but I 
don't think the Debian ARM port was compiled with softfloat. It almost 
looks like supporting Coldfire will be a plain pain because of the 
different varients in the chips (I almost see an Debian SuperH scenario 
coming)
Michael

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Roman Zippel wrote:

> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:47:43 +0100 (CET)
> From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
> To: Kurt Mahan <kmahan@xmission.com>
> Cc: debian-68k@lists.debian.org, Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>,
>     Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>,
>     Christian T. Steigies <cts@debian.org>,
>     Ingo Juergensmann <ij@2008.bluespice.org>
> Subject: Re: FOSDEM thoughts
> Resent-Date: Wed,  5 Mar 2008 04:48:13 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-68k@lists.debian.org
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Kurt Mahan wrote:
>
> > With respect to Floating Point there are differences within the Coldfire
> > V4 family.  The M547x/M548x have the FPU you have been discussing.  The
> > M5445x doesn't have any FPU hardware and requires everything to be
> > compiled with softfloat.
>
> Linux/m68k assumes a FPU to be present, CF doesn't even know about the
> extendend fp precision (long double), but it's currently used by m68k.
>
> bye, Roman
>
>
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