Re: cirrus ep93xx support (was: Re: Debian ARM success story: Debian desktop on a TS-7300)
The current advantage of Maverick over something like iWMMXt,
considering that Debian is still hardfpa, is that Maverick is on
coprocessors 4,5,6 so it doesn't conflict with FPA, whereas if you want
to use iWMMXt at all, you have to use either softfloat or EABI for
everything because it conflicts with FPA.
Even though FPA and Maverick doesn't conflict in hardware aspect, it is
still impossible to mix both in the same dynamically linked executable.
The problems are numerous, but think about the data representation in the
memory (and within the FPUs), C argument passing, return values (as per
current GCC convention), etc.
The only sane way of using Maverick code is by having it in a statically
linked executable. This, however, implies that the corresponding libc has
been built with Maverick support. AFAIK the only GCC version that
generates working Crunch code is 3.4.3 after applying this:
http://www.nucleusys.com/downloads/crunch/crunch-tools-1.3.2.tar.bz2
patch. I didn't keep an eye on the recent GCC development in terms of
Maverick Crunch, so i may be wrong about this part.
Petko
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