Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2022 22:25:00 +1100 From: MJ <mafsys1234@gmail.com> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libsoft retiring Message-ID: <df46c85e-ddb0-cf9b-333c-5e5928dd7851@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfqQmNY-393_34b42okSJtFb78Frg=vt7gXaKoWb1LEHng@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANCZdfqQmNY-393_34b42okSJtFb78Frg=vt7gXaKoWb1LEHng@mail.gmail.com>
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On 6/01/2022 10:58 am, Warner Losh wrote: > Greetings, > > I implemented libsoft on arm for the FreeBSD 10 -> FreeBSD 11 transition from using the 'softfp' ABI (where hardware float was used, but registers were passed in integer registers) to the 'hardfp' ABI we've used ever since. > > libsoft has been turned off since I added it as an option in 2016 6 months before the 11.0 release. Several people used it at the time to transition their 32-bit armv6 FreeBSD 10 (or 11-current) boards to armv7 FreeBSD 11. Since then I know of nobody that's used it. > > I think that it's time to retire the option entirely. https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33761 has the bits to remove it. > > Comments? > > Warner Somewhat related, does anything happen to wiki pages referencing this? Deleted, updated to show deprecation, remain static for posterity, etc? https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/hardabi MJ
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