On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Darren Hart <dvh...@linux.intel.com> wrote: > On 08/23/2011 05:38 AM, Koen Kooi wrote: >> >> Op 20 aug. 2011, om 00:23 heeft Darren Hart het volgende geschreven: >> >>> Fixes [YOCTO #1203] >>> >>> Using the hard floating point abi is incompatible with some binary >>> libaries and 3D support for the Beagleboard. As we do not provide >>> these in poky and meta-yocto, we can take advantage of the hard >>> floating point abi. >> >> What advantage are you talking about? So far everyone has been unable >> to provide real-world numbers[1] that show hardfp making a difference >> compared to a properly configured softfp. The numbers debian and >> meego are showing are comparing it against completely vfpless builds, > > > That's good reasoning to stick with softfp+neon. Unfortunately I can't > find the mail threads that first got me looking into adding hardfp > support. As I said, I'm not sold on the idea, but it was requested so I > looked into how to address it. > > If nobody comes forward saying they would really like to have this, I'm > going to modify the patch series to disable hardfp by default, but leave > the infrastructure in place so people can enable if they like.
Well, are there some softfp related config bits we need on the yocto side that meta-ti has, in order to bring that performance back in line? -- Tom _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
