| To: | Deepak Shenoy <deepak@ishoni.com> |
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| Subject: | Re: floating point libarary for mips |
| From: | Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org> |
| Date: | Wed, 11 Apr 2001 17:56:02 +0200 |
| Cc: | linux-mips@oss.sgi.com |
| In-reply-to: | <7019982E6729D511914E00C04F0CCD250B44A4@leonoid.in.ishoni.com>; from deepak@ishoni.com on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:07:53PM +0530 |
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On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:07:53PM +0530, Deepak Shenoy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Our MIPS processor does not have a floating point unit. But when I build the
> kernel with "soft-float" option I would get many undefined references. So I
> guess I would need to include the soft floating point library. Where can i
> get this? Any pointers would help me.
The kernel itself does not use floating point ops so you need/must not
compile the kernel with soft-float - Another option is to just
enable the kernel floating point emulator as that will enable you
to run unmodified binarys in userspace.
Flo
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Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5201-669912
Why is it called "common sense" when nobody seems to have any?
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