Re: Intermediate step for new arch for lc040 compatibility

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 07:55:10AM +1000, Nat Sloss wrote:
> These are the reported failures and test results from a soft float 
> installation:
> 
> http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/nat/lc040-atf-softfloat.report
> http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/nat/lc040-atf-softfloat.out
> 
> As opposed to 14 failures with this change (same for mc68030 with fp emulation 
> and a full '040 in quemu).

We are fixing the "generic" soft-float failures (slowly). The count decremented
a few within the last few days. It is mostly about corner cases not very
important in the wild (i.e. we ran many softfloat only architectures for
years w/o even noticing the issues).

In this case I am not sure what to prefer, is there a measurable difference?
I am not sure what serious floating point stuff anyone would run on
such a machine, maybe some Perl benchmarks?

I would like to see both options work (since Nat has them both mostly ready).

Martin