On Sep 17, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Scott Wood wrote: > On arch/ppc, Soft_emulate_8xx was used when full math emulation was > turned off to emulate a minimal subset of floating point load/store > instructions, to avoid needing a soft-float toolchain. This function > is called, but not present, on arch/powerpc, causing a build error > if floating point emulation is turned off. > > As: > 1. soft-float toolchains are now common, > 2. partial emulation could mislead someone into thinking they have > a soft-float userspace because things usually work, only to have it > fail when actual FP gets executed under unusual circumstances, and > 3. full emulation is still available for those who need to run > non-soft-float userspace, > > I'm deleting the call rather than moving Soft_emulate_8xx over to > arch/powerpc. > > Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'm still not in favor of this and think we should move the Soft_emulate_8xx code over. - k _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev