Re: arm software floating point support going forward

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On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I wanted to kick off a discussion, I think that with the work that
> Seneca is doing for armv6hl to support the Raspberry Pi most of the
> need for building sfp has gone away. I would like us to drop support
> for sfp in F19 that means that anyone running a kirkwood based system
> would get supported software updates for approximately 13 months from
> now. with cubie boards and other devices coming around that are cheap
> and more powerful and similar options I think there is little benefit
> to continuing to support sfp.

I'm not overly familiar with arm, but from a kernel standpoint you might
be able to enable floating point emulation. That would let you run the
hardfp binaries on the boards without an FPU.  It would be a performance
hit for things doing FP heavy computation, but you could continue
supporting those boards that way.

josh
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