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Subject: Re: PowerPC e500v2 and IEEE 754
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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