On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Dave Martin wrote: > Because the nwfpe support is unlikely to be used on new platforms > and requires CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT, which is not generally used with > ARMv7+, we shouldn't expect to build nwfpe support into a Thumb-2 > kernel. > > At present, nwfpe contains assembly code which isn't Thumb-2 > compatible, and for now it doesn't appear useful to port this > code. > > All ARMv7-A/R platforms necessarily have VFPv3 hardware floating- > point natively, making emulation unnecessary. > > Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@xxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > arch/arm/Kconfig | 2 +- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig > index f9ca7f3..7e825c3 100644 > --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig > +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig > @@ -1759,7 +1759,7 @@ comment "At least one emulation must be selected" > > config FPE_NWFPE > bool "NWFPE math emulation" > - depends on !AEABI || OABI_COMPAT > + depends on (!AEABI || OABI_COMPAT) && !THUMB2_KERNEL > ---help--- > Say Y to include the NWFPE floating point emulator in the kernel. > This is necessary to run most binaries. Linux does not currently > -- > 1.7.1 > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-arm-kernel mailing list > linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
