Subject: Re: Port to 8xx embedded PPCs
To: David Querbach <querbach@realtime.bc.ca>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-embed
Date: 06/20/2000 08:37:48
	I believe Ban Harris has imported a version designed to be MI -
	he might be able to comment on this more :)

		David/absolute
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On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, David Querbach wrote:

> > I'm not very familiar with the 8xxs, but I'm assuming they have no
> > hardware floating point? If so, the soft float support we have in
> > several other ports can probably be stolen -- it would be very
> > straightforward.
> 
> Yes, we need software floating-point.  After looking at the emulators that
> come with the compiler, I instead chose to steal the one in the arm32 port
> (src/sys/lib/libc/arch/arm32/fplib).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David Querbach
> Real-Time Systems Inc.
> 
>