RE: virtex4 RTOS with hw FPU.
From: Fillod Stephane <hidden>
Date: 2008-12-03 11:30:05
vadik wrote:
I have implementation of Virtex4 with hw FPU trough APU . Is there any Real Time OS that directly supports this implementation
without
relying on sw floating point emulation.
This is a matter of tool chain and setup of your kernel?
Xilinx Relesed GCC build of their own that is patched to support the
apu fpu
implementation , but this helps me on the application level but if the kernel doesn't support this implemntation i have a problem .
Indeed, the kernel has to save and restore FPU registers upon task switch. You should look for CONFIG_PPC_FPU in the Kconfig of Linux. I can't help you more, because I'm not used to the ppc in Virtex4. However, there must be some appropriate forums on Xilinx site.
linux is not RT enough , does the linuxwoks supports this kind of implementation ?
Have you considered Xenomai[1], the F/OSS hard real-time extension to Linux? It works great on all range of powerpc's, and it is rock solid. [1] http://xenomai.org Regards --=20 Stephane