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Re: FPU support for PowerPC MPC8xxx


agyhoo said:
> Hi,
>
> Is there support for the FPU in the PowerPC MPC8xxx HAL
> variant? Looking at the CDL file, it seems that there isn't
> (the cdl for the MPC8260 variant however does support it).
>

Currently, it's turned off.  It would be some effort to get it
working on the PowerPC.

> I am trying to execute a calculate a simple FP expression
> but I keep getting integer results.

There is software floating point available.

Can you share what you've tried?  It may just need a little
tweak to get going (at least with the software version).


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