[U-Boot] [RFC][PATCH] ARMV7: Patch to fix hard float build issues

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Sat Feb 19 20:37:18 CET 2011


Dear =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=,

In message <yw1xy65c3xfi.fsf at unicorn.mansr.com> you wrote:
> 
> There is one further complication here.  If the compiler was built with
> -mfpu=3Dneon as default, it might emit neon instructions for pure integer
> code.  For the purpose of this discussion, such instructions should
> still be regarded as floating-point since they are tied to the VFP.
> Such code generation is disabled by -msoft-float.

Right.

May we now just agree that "-msoft-float" is a matter of fact and
mandatory in U-Boot.

Thanks.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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