Re: Xilinx Virtex4 FX PPC

Hi, Robert, Josh

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Question 1:
Do I need a special glibc for the Xilinx PPC 405????  
Does a normal PPC glibc have more "advanced" instructions compiled in
that will not work on a Xilinx PPC 405??

Have a look at the eglibc project (embedded glibc) at http://www.eglibc.org
I think they support all kind of soft-fp configurations.
(i.e. The stuff seems to work fine on my MPC8540 e500 core with soft-fp)

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Make sure you're building glibc with soft-fp, or make sure you have
CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION enabled in your kernel.  The PPC 405 doesn't have
an FPU.

josh

CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION fixed it!!

What are the opinions out there? 
Kernel fp or glibc soft-fp??

AFAICT: soft-fp in (e)glibc. They should be faster / hopefully more
optimized to your specific cpu.

Regards,
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Clemens Koller
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