Re: Intermediate step for new arch for lc040 compatibility

[Nat Sloss <nathanialsloss%yahoo.com.au@localhost>]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:08:40 Martin Husemann wrote:
> 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).

+1

> 
> Martin


Best regards,

Nat