Subject: Re: ARM ELF toolchain patches
To: Dave Daniels <dave_daniels@argonet.co.uk>
From: David Forbes <david@flossy.u-net.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 02/25/2001 18:15:21
> I tried this out as I am also interested in getting the floating
> point coprocessor working on my A7000+. I applied both patches and
> specified 'options ARMFPE' in the config file for my kernel. After
> I rebuilt the kernel I found that there was no difference in the
> time it took my test program to run. Given that it took about 80
> seconds under RISC OS and over 1300 under NetBSD with and without
> the changes, it is clear to me that the floating point hardware is
> still not being used. Have I missed something?

What was your test program?

Cheers,

David.