On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Andrew Burgess <aab(a)cichlid.com> wrote:
On 12/23/2010 01:11:18 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > are you sure the fp arg style is a kernel issue?
> > are there system calls that take floats (not in structs or arrays
> > but as a single argument)?
>
> From all the documentation about it seems so. You need to remember
> there's a lot of mainline distros (and I'm not talking about small
> embedded ones) looking to move to arm7 + hardfp but none that have yet
> done so. There's lots of notes and people that have done customer
> recompiles etc for testing and eval purposes but none that have
> actually done it yet across the entire mainline distro to run
> everything from apache to gnome.
I guess I'm determined to learn all the dirty details here :-)
Do you know of better places to research this than the fedora-arm
list archives?
Google? :-P
But from some of the links that I've found or people have pointed out
on #fedora-arm
http://wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatTodo
http://cygwin.com/ml/libc-ports/2009-04/msg00020.html
http://www.linux-archive.org/debian-dpkg/395698-armelfp-new-architecture-...
There's also some details on both the MeeGo and Linaro wiki's that
cover the direction that Ubuntu and MeeGo are taking.
Peter