Re: port-powerpc/55425 (openssl fails on FPU emulation for powerpc)

[Taylor R Campbell <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-powerpc/55425; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Taylor R Campbell <riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: port-powerpc-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
	gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, rin%NetBSD.org@localhost, rokuyama.rk%gmail.com@localhost
Subject: Re: port-powerpc/55425 (openssl fails on FPU emulation for powerpc)
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 02:57:10 +0000

 > Date: Tue,  7 Jul 2020 01:51:35 +0000 (UTC)
 > From: rin%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > 
 > It is best to fix FPU emulation in kernel. However, I doubt whether we
 > could implement FPU emulation, in practice, at a level where calculation
 > results are same as real hardware in bit-to-bit precision.
 
 Why do you doubt this?  We already do this for many platforms with
 sys/lib/libkern/softfloat.c, don't we?  Is it broken on powerpc, or
 does powerpc do something different, or what?