[RFC PATCH v4 0/3] ARM: VFP: Save / restore VFP state on the signal handler path

Jason McMullan jason.mcmullan at netronome.com
Wed Apr 7 13:31:09 EDT 2010


On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Imre Deak <imre.deak at nokia.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 06:24:39PM +0200, ext Dirk Behme wrote:
>> Do you think this is relevant for ARM11 SMP (ARM11 MPCore), too? Or do
>> you think this is necessary only for NEON systems, i.e. Cortex Ax?
>
> I think ARM11 has VFP, so it is relevant for it. This actually means that it's
> enough to provide -mfpu=vfp above..

I know of at least one MPCore (ARM11) SoC where the VFP design option was
not enabled. Keep that in mind.



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