[U-Boot] soft vs. hard float

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear "Saridakis, Dean (US SSA)",

In message <20131107230556.589FC4A0EA at theia.denx.de> you wrote:
>
> It looks U-Boot is generally built using soft float. I need

correct.

> hard-float in my system. Is this a general enough need that it'd make
> sense to have a CONFIG_SYS_HARD_FLOAT to enable this option?

This makes no sense.  U-Boot does not use any FP operations at all.

> I made a quick update for mpc85xx (guarded by CONFIG_SYS_HARD_FLOAT)
> and I seem to be running fine.

U-Boot does not (and will not) support FP.  If you want to do number
crunching, then start an OS.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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