Removal of NWFPE in its entirety, and VFP emulation code

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Wed Apr 10 09:21:27 EDT 2013


Hi Russell,

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:40:02AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> I have just committed a patch to remove the arch/arm/nwfpe code from
> the kernel, and the VFP code emulating the FP operations.

[...]

I just had a play with your for-next branch, and noticed a couple of issues
arising from this:

	1. Removing vfpinstr.h leads to a couple of build failures, as it is
	   still included by arch/arm/kvm/coproc.c (for fmrx, which we should
	   continue to provide) and arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c (similarly, but
	   also fmxr).

	2. vfp.h now contains a bunch of dead function declarations (e.g.
	   vfp_double_normaliseround) which should probably be removed. In
	   fact, the inline functions are unused too, so they could also go.

Will



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