uClibc patches for sh-2

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Mon Oct 23 07:05:38 UTC 2006


On Monday 23 October 2006 00:09, Paul Mundt wrote:
> I don't remember the rationale at the moment, SH-3 wanted it for some
> reason. Presumably it was the same sort of scenario as ARM, using special
> tuning at some point and simply dropping it. Anyways, we have FPU
> emulation in the kernel these days (where SH-3 is the primary user), so
> we don't need it there anymore.

eh ?  the trend is to move away from userspace softfloat ?  all those illegal 
instruction traps in kernel space seriously kills performance ...
-mike
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