Wookey replied to my privately by accident. Here is his reply: ++ Liberty Young [03-10-30 10:17 -0700]: > On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 12:34, Erik Andersen wrote: > > On Wed Oct 29, 2003 at 09:07:42AM +0000, Wookey wrote: > > > That is a more sensible default I agree. Makes life difficult for the > > > ARM7500FE people, but it does seem more sensible than making it difficult > > > for everybody else, which is the current state of affairs. If we compile > > > everything for soft-float on arm how hard is it to use the real FPU on the > > > few chips (one chip?) that do support it - does everything need recompiling > > > due to incompatible ABIs? > > > > > > Even in this case I think it's still worth doing, as FPUed arm chips are in > > > such a tiny minority, but Vince might complain (as an arm7500FE machine vendor :-). > > > > There would need to be a separate hard-float distro for that. > > Each and every binary and library compiled for soft-float would > > be totally incompatible with hard-float. > > Would this mean that uClibc would NOT work for processors such as the > AMD ElanSC520 (i486 with FPU) ?
No - the soft-float default woule only apply to arm, where real hardware FPU is almost non-existent in real CPUs (there are 2 (out of at least 25), and one is obsolete). For other arches we have whatever build options are most sensible for them. Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/
