From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 6 18:43:22 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFF8316A421 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 18:43:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from raj@semihalf.com) Received: from mail.semihalf.com (mail.semihalf.com [83.15.139.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9AA813C4B0 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 18:43:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from raj@semihalf.com) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mail.semihalf.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5E19142CB for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 19:14:26 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.semihalf.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.semihalf.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 14214-03 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 19:14:25 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4730AECC.5010701@semihalf.com> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:13:32 +0100 From: Rafal Jaworowski MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at semihalf.com Subject: SoftFloat future X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the StrongARM Processor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:43:23 -0000 Hi, I wanted to learn about the directions for soft float emulation approach on the ARM since right now ARM is the main consumer of it. For the FPU-less PowerPC (e500) port we previously (6.x) used the SoftFloat lib, but during integration with -current I had lot of problems to make it work (a couple of symbols in libc got 'corupt'), and finally gave up for the gcc level soft-float instead, which seems to work fine. So what's ARM people view on using SoftFloat vs. gcc soft-float? What are FreeBSD/ARM plans in this regard. Rafal