25 Jan
2011
25 Jan
'11
7:54 p.m.
Dear Timur Tabi,
In message 4D3F1674.10509@freescale.com you wrote:
Because dealing with FP in a multi-tasking OS is messy. U-Boot doesn't have that problem.
But we also do not have any need for FP operations either. It would just add to the complexity (and to the memory foot print, especially on systems without FPU where we would have to provide soft-float libraries, plus eventually variantes for SPEv1 and SPEvv2 and whatever - not to mention that tghis will be needed for all the non-PPC architectures as well).
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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