Seriously TS should make a EABI distribution the factory default on the flash
when it ship, and have that ETH1 driver loaded. I wonder why they made a new
version Feb 2nd 2010 but didn't go for EABI.
--- In "tachion0niohcat" <> wrote:
>
> My apologies, you are correct that you don't need to put that much work into
> getting an EABI system if you don't care about floating point operations and
> thus not use the Maverick crunch.
> But without the Maverick Crunch there would not be all that much gain (as I
> see it at least) to go through the trouble of getting an EABI system up and
> running. So YES, I mean getting the Maverick crunch to work and work properly
> and give you code that can actually perform fast floating point. You won't
> see any gain with integer operations only code though. However, even for Qt I
> noticed an appreciable performance increase turning when turning on the
> Maverick crunch. Your milage may vary.
>
>
> --- In "Charles" <charliem_1216@> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi --
> >
> > --- In "tachion0niohcat" <holtrop@> wrote:
> > >
> > > There is a LOT of trickery involved getting EABI to work properly on
> > > these CPUs. The issue is with the GCC compiler, which needs a number of
> > > patches. I did find a bunch of resources on how to do this and kept some
> > > notes. You are welcome to it, but the warning is that this is not a
> > > simple step.
> >
> > Sure you don't mean getting maverick crunch to work properly? (Link shows
> > you tried to use -mfpu=maverick). EABI has been easy & straightforward for
> > me, using most any toolchain less than about 3 years old. Building your
> > own cross gcc may harder, but shouldn't be needed unless you need maverick
> > crunch.
> >
> > Maverick crunch, however, was a quagmire that I abandoned. Benefits were
> > not worth it, compared to benefits of EABI.
> >
> > Thanks for the write-ups, though, I didn't see these before.
> >
> > regards, ........... Charlie
> > >
> > > To get a cross compiler with proper EABI:
> > > http://nuclear.unh.edu/wiki/index.php?title=ARM_Cross_Compiler
> > >
> > > To get EABI Lenny:
> > > http://nuclear.unh.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Creating_an_EABI_Lenny_system
> > >
> > > Please keep your own notes on your progress doing this, and then let the
> > > group know how it went!
> > >
> >
>
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