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Re: [ts-7000] TS-7200 / ARM9 speed issue - question

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] TS-7200 / ARM9 speed issue - question
From: "Breton M. Saunders" <>
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:21:36 +0100
Jason Stahls wrote:
> Well the big problem is that it assumes a FPU, sends the instructions
> to the FPU (which is does have but isn't supported by default), those
> instructions fail, causing the kernel to have to re-issue instructions
> to emulate a FPU.  This whole thing takes _forever_, if the distro was
> built with softfloat it wouldn't be as bad, and if built with Mavric
> Crunch would be even better.  You can of course, rebuild the distro
> with EABI  or softfloat if you want, there's a few people on here
> working on that.
>

Hmm.  Are you sure about that?  Won't GCC just generate inline code (or
function calls) if you specify that there is no floating point unit?

    -Brett



 
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