[PATCH] powerpc/85xx: enable the math emulation for the corenet64_smp_defconfig
David Laight
David.Laight at ACULAB.COM
Thu Jul 11 20:04:06 EST 2013
> > It'd also be nice if we had an option to only include the portions
> > of math-emu that are known to be missing in some CPUs (excluding
> > CPUs that are missing the entire FPU, of course). Besides its
> > effect on kernel image size, in my experience math-emu adds a
> > non-trivial amount of time to a kernel build.
>
> Sounds reasonable. I will give it a try.
It also ought to be possible to use the FPU when emulating the
missing instructions - rather than using the full 'soft' FPU.
David
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