FreeBSD/arm support for Marvell chips -- please review

Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt at mac.com
Fri Oct 10 17:39:18 UTC 2008


On Oct 10, 2008, at 10:11 AM, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> : I have some tweaks to add later. For example:
> : FPA support on little endian ARM (FPA has the words in
> : big-endian, irrespective of the byte order). We have
> : 4 places where we define the IEEE representation and
> : where we need to account for this.
>
> FPA?

The original FP format used by some ARM processors.
Obsoleted by VFP AFAICT. VFP is like FPA, except
that VFP has the words of a double in the native
byte order. FPA always has the words in big-endian
order.

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Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com





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