On Wednesday 4. August 2010 20.15.35 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On 8/4/2010 2:36 PM, Jeremiah Foster wrote: > > Hello, > > > > What is MeeGo planning to do with regards to ARM hardfloat or softfloat? > > What is the rationale behind the choice? > > > > Some background information here: > > http://wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatPort > > > > Jeremiah > > it's my understanding that n900 supports hard float... so that's what > we're using for the n900 builds...
The N900 hardware (Cortex-A8) does support hard float.
However, Maemo 5 builds with the Neon VFP but in soft-fp mode. That is, it
uses the hardware for manipulating the floating point values, but parameters
are passed in ARM GP registers.
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