On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, David Forbes wrote:

> > > Either one of those would get you FPA support (assuming a suitable kernel,
> > > which I believe we don't yet have).  The former would produce much faster
> > > code, but might take rather longer.
>
> Question:  what needs to be done to the kernel to get either of these to
> work?  When I first got NetBSD going on my A7000+ I enquired about FPA
> support and I got the impression that either -mhard-float or the modified
> libc would be sufficient.

As far as I can tell, the arm32 kernel doesn't currently have any code for
saving and restoring FPA state on context switches.  It may be that the
necessary code is there, and I haven't been able to find it, though.  
Come to think of it, it may be in the ARM FPE, which is binary-only.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26               <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>