[PATCH 4/4 v2] [POWERPC] Kilauea defconfig file

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Oct 12 02:39:42 EST 2007


On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 17:37 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Hallo Stefan,
> 
> In message <200710111531.13022.sr at denx.de> you wrote:
> > 
> > > If not, do you want this set by default so 
> > > floating point instructions work?
> 
> No, we use soft-float on all such systems which is much faster.
> 
> > I just checked some existing arch/ppc defconfig files (and arch/powerpc too). 
> > Most if not all have MATH_EMULATION not set. Even on those PPC's without FPU. 
> > I assume we see no problems since soft-float is used while compiling.
> > 
> > Anyways, I'll change this and resubmit.
> 
> No, please leave as is.

It's fine either way with me.  It was just a question since not all
distributions compile with soft-float.

josh




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