On 2013-01-23, David Miller wrote: > I don't think we're going to support chips that lack an FPU, > sorry. Ok, fair enough. The kernel has explicit support for the LEON3 in several places, and I automatically assumed that it would aim to support all possible configurations. But I guess it makes sense to draw the line somewhere, especially if all other SPARC variants have built-in FPUs. > You can't even run the simplest things like the python interpreter > without FPU support, the first thing it does during initialization > is do a floating point square root. You can of course still run such things as long as all of userland is compiled with a toolchain that emulates floating point on compiler level (i.e. GCC --with-float=soft). This is a fairly normal way to build software for LEON3. Thanks, Joris. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
