On Friday 26 March 2010 16:51:15 Phil Endecott wrote: > Florian Fainelli wrote: > > On Friday 26 March 2010 13:06:01 Phil Endecott wrote: > >> yajin wrote: > >> > The nano note's CPU does NOT have a fp. So it needs the kernel to > >> > emulate the fp instruction. > >> > >> OK, thanks. But presumably the OpenWRT kernel is already doing that > >> because the OpenWRT binaries run. Is there more than one FP emulation > >> mode, or something? (Any docs about this?) > > > > The OpenWrt kernel disables the in-kernel FPU emulator and produces > > software- floating point toolchains (-msoft-float). > > Thanks, I guessed it would be something like that. So presumably I > need to build a kernel (which is not fundamentally difficult, but I was > hoping to avoid having to make a cross-toolchain) - unless there is a > pre-built kernel somewhere that might work for this device?
There are OpenWrt binaries for this device pre-built [1], but they include the kernel plus rootfilesystem, so you might want to compile a kernel of your own with the in-kernel FPU emulator turned on. [1]: http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/xburst/ -- Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
