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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
> 
> 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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