[U-Boot-Users] UBOOT - Arm Floating Point

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue Aug 1 13:02:57 CEST 2006


Andreas Schweigstill <andreas at schweigstill.de> wrote:
> Peter Pearse schrieb:
>> Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>>> [BTW: have you ever seen an ARM processor with FPU?]
>> 
>> The VFP9-S coprocessor is an ARM enhanced numeric coprocessor that provides
>
> I think that Wolfgang Denk meant it very literally. The VFP9-S is just
> a block for building processors; and probably there are also some
> test chips. But I'm sure that most people on this list have never
> held an ARM processor with an FPU in their hands and had to implement
> a bootloader for it.
>
> I remember that there were FPU boards available for the Acorn Archimedes
> computers but that's quite long ago.

There are real boards (not just test chips) from ARM and some TI OMAP
platforms supporting VFP:

http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/VersatileFamily.html

-- 
Catalin




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