[U-Boot] floating point operation in powerpc

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear prathika,

In message <4A7A7946.6080007 at deeopl.com> you wrote:
>
> i am porting u-boot on powerpc 440.
> i am also running a simple hello world application on it and I want to 
> use floating point unit.

Boot an operating system, then.

U-Boot is just a boot loader, and we do not support any FP operations
in U-Boot.

> where am I going wrong in using floating point? is there any switch or 
> library that i should include while compiling the hello_world.c?

Boot Linux, and run your application in Linux.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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