Common kernel image for e300 and e500v2
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Sat Jan 24 05:42:00 EST 2009
Johns Daniel wrote:
> Thank you for that piece of info, Scott!
>
> May I expand the question one bit, and ask whether the user-mode
> binaries compiled for the e300 will generally work for the e500 -- or,
> vice versa? Is one choice safer than the other?
>
> I know for sure that we take a big hit on floating-point ops, but are
> there other things I am not considering?
It should work, though as you note floating point will have to be
emulated (make sure your kernel supports it); better would be to compile
as soft-float. Also avoid string instructions.
-Scott
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