On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Philip Blundell wrote:
> >Yup; you need to enable NetWinder FPU emulation for the
> >kernel to work at all (I'm not sure why that's a compilation
> >option, actually).
I thought that this wouldn't be my problem, as I used a .config from an
old working kernel (2.4.0-test10-rmk1). But when I looked, neither
NWFPE, nor FASTFPE were set. Odd, mabey the config option was
silently set before? Neverless thanks to Yves & Phil for setting me
straight.
>
> Back in the dark ages or so, there was an alternative (closed source) floating
> point emulator from Acorn. It used to be possible to boot the system far
> enough without floating point that you could then insert the emulator as a
> module. Maybe some people still even use this, I don't know.
>
> Nowadays there are different reasons to keep NWFPE as an option: you can
> select `FASTFPE' instead, or you might have a userland that doesn't need FPA
> emulation at all, in which case NWFPE is just a waste of kernel memory. In
> fact there is a discussion taking place even now on the armlinux-toolchain
> list about how we might consign FPA to the great recycle bin in the sky.
>
> p.
>
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