ppc Floating Point support status

Hello everybody,
I was wondering what the status was on supporting floating-point instructions 
for the mpc8548.  I found the suggested patch:  
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?order=patch&filter=none&id=9455, 
but I'm not sure for what kernel version this is and when it will be 
officially supported.

Thanks a lot for your help!

Please CC to me (bbuchli at xes-inc.com) as I haven't subscribed to this list.

Ben Buchli

On Aug 22, 2007, at 1:37 PM, Ben Buchli wrote:

Hello everybody,
I was wondering what the status was on supporting floating-point  
instructions
for the mpc8548.  I found the suggested patch:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch? 
order=patch&filter=none&id=9455,
but I'm not sure for what kernel version this is and when it will be
officially supported.

Thanks a lot for your help!

Please CC to me (bbuchli at xes-inc.com) as I haven't subscribed to  
this list.

I thing these are still up in the air based on having some sense of  
testing related to them.

- k

On Wednesday 22 August 2007 15:52:09 Kumar Gala wrote:

On Aug 22, 2007, at 1:37 PM, Ben Buchli wrote:

quoted

Hello everybody,
I was wondering what the status was on supporting floating-point
instructions
for the mpc8548.  I found the suggested patch:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?
order=patch&filter=none&id=9455,
but I'm not sure for what kernel version this is and when it will be
officially supported.

Thanks a lot for your help!

Please CC to me (bbuchli at xes-inc.com) as I haven't subscribed to
this list.

I thing these are still up in the air based on having some sense of
testing related to them.

- k

Kumar,
thanks for getting back with me.
We're doing some early performance testing on one of our boards with an 
mpc8548e. I was wondering if there's a snapshot available that we could use 
and maybe do some working/testing on.
Thanks a lot.

Ben

-- 
--
Ben Buchli
Extreme Engineering Solutions, Inc.
608-833-1155 ext 202

On Sep 4, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Ben Buchli wrote:

On Wednesday 22 August 2007 15:52:09 Kumar Gala wrote:

quoted

On Aug 22, 2007, at 1:37 PM, Ben Buchli wrote:

quoted

Hello everybody,
I was wondering what the status was on supporting floating-point
instructions
for the mpc8548.  I found the suggested patch:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?
order=patch&filter=none&id=9455,
but I'm not sure for what kernel version this is and when it will be
officially supported.

Thanks a lot for your help!

Please CC to me (bbuchli at xes-inc.com) as I haven't subscribed to
this list.

I thing these are still up in the air based on having some sense of
testing related to them.

- k

Kumar,
thanks for getting back with me.
We're doing some early performance testing on one of our boards  
with an
mpc8548e. I was wondering if there's a snapshot available that we  
could use
and maybe do some working/testing on.
Thanks a lot.

I'm confused as to what you are looking for.  Is 2.6.23-rc5 not  
sufficient?

- k