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Date:      Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:52:38 +0100
From:      Rafal Jaworowski <raj@semihalf.com>
To:        Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PowerPC e500v2 and IEEE 754
Message-ID:  <3AD09272-7064-4279-AFAE-6E583C49D1D2@semihalf.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D88CA8A.3020808@embedded-brains.de>
References:  <4D88CA8A.3020808@embedded-brains.de>

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On 2011-03-22, at 17:12, Sebastian Huber wrote:

> Hello
>=20
> does anyone know if FreeBSD provides the software support for full =
IEEE 754
> conformance on a PowerPC e500v2 core (for example QorIQ series from =
Freescale)?

Do you mean  using the floating point APU in E500? We basically run with =
soft floats only, either at GCC level or kernel-side FPU emulation, the =
floating point APU is not utilised currently.

Rafal




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