[PATCH 3/6] ARM: update Kconfig help text for floating point

Alan Jenkins alan-jenkins at tuffmail.co.uk
Fri Oct 9 10:02:19 EDT 2009


We do now support some floating point hardware.  Update the help text
for floating point emulation accordingly, and rename the enclosing
Kconfig menu to "floating point support".  Also remove a reference to
the Acorn FPEmulator; the last public release was built for kernel
version 2.2 and will not load on 2.6.[1]

[1] http://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/fpemulator/

Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins at tuffmail.co.uk>
---
 arch/arm/Kconfig |   16 +++++++---------
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 1c4119c..085644c 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -1411,21 +1411,19 @@ source "drivers/cpuidle/Kconfig"
 
 endmenu
 
-menu "Floating point emulation"
+menu "Floating point support"
 
-comment "At least one emulation must be selected"
+comment "At least one option must be selected"
 
 config FPE_NWFPE
 	bool "NWFPE math emulation"
 	depends on !AEABI || OABI_COMPAT
 	---help---
 	  Say Y to include the NWFPE floating point emulator in the kernel.
-	  This is necessary to run most binaries. Linux does not currently
-	  support floating point hardware so you need to say Y here even if
-	  your machine has an FPA or floating point co-processor podule.
-
-	  You may say N here if you are going to load the Acorn FPEmulator
-	  early in the bootup.
+	  This is necessary to run most old ABI binaries. Linux does not
+	  support FPA floating point hardware, so you need to say Y here
+	  even if your machine has an FPA or floating point co-processor
+	  podule.
 
 config FPE_NWFPE_XP
 	bool "Support extended precision"
@@ -1437,7 +1435,7 @@ config FPE_NWFPE_XP
 	  so in most cases this option only enlarges the size of the
 	  floating point emulator without any good reason.
 
-	  You almost surely want to say N here.
+	  You almost certainly want to say N here.
 
 config FPE_FASTFPE
 	bool "FastFPE math emulation (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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