[ELDK] ELDK5.0 for powerPC

Sergey Nikulov sergey.nikulov at gmail.com
Thu Oct 27 05:17:07 CEST 2011


2011/10/20 Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>

> Dear Herman Lee,
>
> In message <83A7A32B3FDD6C4E80AE74310D8DC81A0379F1E5 at exaltex01.exalt.local>
> you wrote:
> >
> > In ELDK5.0 documentation page 1 -Supported Target Architectures, you
> > mentioned "Generic PowerPC target for FPU-less systems like MPC8308
> > etc". But MPC8308 does have a FPU.
>
> You are right.  Bad example, sorry.
>
> > I am going to use the MPC8309. It also have a FPU like MPC8308. My
> > question is: Should I use "powerpc" or "powerpc-softfloat" package?
>
> For the 8309 the FPU is not listed in the Fact Sheet...
>

Wolfgang,

I just opened Freescale FS from
http://cache.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/fact_sheet/MPC8309FS.pdf?fpsp=1
It shows  Floating Point Unit  - YES

Where the correct answer?

Thank you.


> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
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