[fedora-arm] armv7hl requirements

Michael Hope michael.hope at linaro.org
Fri May 6 12:09:06 UTC 2011


On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
> Jon Masters wrote:
>> If you read how VFPv3 actually implements its registers, you'll see that
>> the extra 16 (for D32) really are totally separate anyway as far as the
>> ABI is concerned, so I remain unconvinced we lose a lot by being D16.
>
> Can you clarify that? Does that mean that a we can have a D16 distro
> with D32 kernel/glibc?

VFPv3-D16 and VFPv3-D32 code are compatible.  You can call D16 code
from D32 code and vice-versa.

-- Michael


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