PowerPC e500v2 and IEEE 754

Rafal Jaworowski raj at semihalf.com
Tue Mar 22 17:12:26 UTC 2011


On 2011-03-22, at 17:12, Sebastian Huber wrote:

> Hello
> 
> does anyone know if FreeBSD provides the software support for full IEEE 754
> conformance on a PowerPC e500v2 core (for example QorIQ series from Freescale)?

Do you mean  using the floating point APU in E500? We basically run with soft floats only, either at GCC level or kernel-side FPU emulation, the floating point APU is not utilised currently.

Rafal



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