Re: PPC 440 System

From: Matt Porter (mporter@kernel.crashing.org)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 09:35:50 EST


This should have been on linuxppc-embedded.

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:24:13AM +0100, simon@baydel.com wrote:
> I don't understand. Can I not just use the math emulation in the kernel ?

Yes you can. However, most developers on PPC4xx are interested in
eventual deployment. Kernel math emulation is slow relative to
a soft float enabled userland so using something like ELDK or MVL
with PPC4xx/8xx makes a lot more sense. If you want to leverage
binaries from Yellowdog/Debian/foo that are compiled for a classic
PPC processor rather than natively then you'll need to enable math
emulation.

Regards,

-- 
Matt Porter
mporter@kernel.crashing.org
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