On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Andrew Burgess <aab@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/23/2010 01:11:18 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: > >> > are you sure the fp arg style is a kernel issue? >> > are there system calls that take floats (not in structs or arrays >> > but as a single argument)? >> >> From all the documentation about it seems so. You need to remember >> there's a lot of mainline distros (and I'm not talking about small >> embedded ones) looking to move to arm7 + hardfp but none that have yet >> done so. There's lots of notes and people that have done customer >> recompiles etc for testing and eval purposes but none that have >> actually done it yet across the entire mainline distro to run >> everything from apache to gnome. > > I guess I'm determined to learn all the dirty details here :-) > Do you know of better places to research this than the fedora-arm > list archives? Google? :-P But from some of the links that I've found or people have pointed out on #fedora-arm http://wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatTodo http://cygwin.com/ml/libc-ports/2009-04/msg00020.html http://www.linux-archive.org/debian-dpkg/395698-armelfp-new-architecture-name-armel-variant.html There's also some details on both the MeeGo and Linaro wiki's that cover the direction that Ubuntu and MeeGo are taking. Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
