Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2003 07:35:50 -0700 | From | Matt Porter <> | Subject | Re: PPC 440 System |
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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.
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