[head tinderbox] failure on arm/arm

[Olivier Houchard]

On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 11:27:42PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 12:34:34AM +0100, Olivier Houchard wrote:
> 
> > No, we're not using the mixed endian IEEE 64bits representation. We're
> > defaulting to softfloat VFP. What would be te point of switching ?
> 
> >From my limited understanding of these things (mostly observing on the
> ARM Linux lists) absolutely none. The mixed endian IEEE representation
> is a complete pain, I'm unaware of any reason why it was chosen over a
> conventional little endian representation (probably back some time in
> 1987).
> 

I thought so :)
I think FPA is used for historical reasons, because that's what some older 
arm cpus used when they had a FPU. And of course using a kernel FPE was a
great idea for linux too.

Olivier