This just came up on openmoko-devel: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/openmoko-devel/2007-August/001278.html
Roughly, soft-float is more efficient than emulation - you could configure the kernel differently to support debian or zaurus binaries, or you could just rebuild the binaries... "Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have some binary code that runs pretty well on the Zaurus and tried > to run it on OpenMoko. But it fails with an Illegal Instruction. > > after some gdb experiments I found that it is this instruction: > > fltd f1, r5 > > Well, it turned out that the code calls sqrt() which is pretty > inefficient at this place :-) > > But nevertheless, doesn't the OpenMoko kernel have a FPU emulation? > Or is there an emulation module that can be easily installed? > > Nikolaus

