Re: mpc8241/8245 floating point unit

It has always had a FPU.  For a while, Mot was not advertising it because
they had not verified that it worked properly, but it is an advertised
feature now.  It has always worked.

gvb


At 12:23 PM 3/5/2003 -0500, jan.damborsky@devcom.cz wrote:

Jerry Van Baren wrote:

quoted

I don't have 8241/8245 experience, but I do have 8260 experience (also
uses
the 603e core).  Floating point (FPU) works well under linux.

Does 8260 really have full FPU support ?. I think it only has FPU
register set and it supports
FPU load and store instructions, but NOT arithmetic instructions. Am I
right ?
                  HANYS

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Jerry Van Baren wrote:

It has always had a FPU.  For a while, Mot was not advertising it because
they had not verified that it worked properly,

The story is much more interesting than that :-)  You need to find
someone at Motorola that is willing to tell it.


	-- Dan


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