Re: Impact of ARM kernel floating-point emulation removal on SS4000-E, Lanner EM7210, etc.
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:04:17AM +0200, Maciej Soltysiak wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Can anyone shed some light about current state of this (
>https://lwn.net/Articles/546840/) and
>potential impact on SS4000-E, Lanner EM720 and the likes? More precisely:
>- Is it going to be removed or not (as Linus had objections)
>- Would that affect these boxes?
>
>I mean the Debian .config for 3.2.x do enable NWFPE and I haven't tried
>deselecting it, anybody knows?
Don't worry about it - the issue was a false alarm and the NWFPE code
is safe:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-April/163904.html
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