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? -Scott _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
