On Sep 18, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Scott Wood wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 10:08:50AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: >> >> 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. > > Any particular reasons that outweigh the reasons I gave, especially > #2?
Mainly that 8xx has been doing this for a vast number of years and I see no reason to stop doing it at this point. While I can see that it might be misleading, clearly 8xx linux users haven't had issues with it. - k _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev