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Re: [PATCH v2 09/19] ARM: update FPE_NWFPE help text

From: Ralph Siemsen <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-02 11:59:57
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On Wed, Jul 01, 2026 at 11:23:43PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
The help text is seriously outdated and predates the introduction of
VFP floating point units that were available as early as some ARM926
based systems.

Change the help text to reflect that this is now a legacy feature
and that it will go away along with OABI support in the future.
Indeed NWFPE was initially added in order to be able to execute 
pre-existing binaries from even earlier systems.

Once soft-float became available in the toolchain, the netwinder
userspace was rebuilt, and NWFPE became largely unnecessary.

All of this happened in the early 2000's.
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Ralph Siemsen <redacted>

Regards,
Ralph
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