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Re: FPU support for PowerPC MPC8xxx
- From: "Gary Thomas" <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: "agyhoo" <agyhoo at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 02:58:37 -0700 (MST)
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] FPU support for PowerPC MPC8xxx
- References: <20040309221026.50618.qmail@web41304.mail.yahoo.com>
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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