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Re: glibc soft-fp ready for kernel use
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Cc: <davem at davemloft dot net>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:43:53 +0000
- Subject: Re: glibc soft-fp ready for kernel use
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On Tue, 4 Nov 2014, Joseph Myers wrote:
> Updating the comparison of glibc and Linux kernel soft-fp versions from
> <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-10/msg00345.html>, I think the
> glibc code is now ready to replace the kernel version if anyone is
> interested in making the relevant kernel changes (which would be fairly
> substantial, given all the interface changes in soft-fp in the past ten
> years or so, especially the conversion of various macros to use raw or
> semi-raw values for speed).
FWIW, if no-one is currently working on this I might take a look at it
myself during the glibc release freeze (though I can only readily test
such changes for powerpc, not alpha, s390, sh or sparc which are the other
Linux kernel architectures using soft-fp).
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com