[yocto] [PATCH 1/1] beagleboard: enable hard floating point abi

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Darren Hart <dvhart at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On 08/23/2011 05:38 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>
>> Op 20 aug. 2011, om 00:23 heeft Darren Hart het volgende geschreven:
>>
>>> Fixes [YOCTO #1203]
>>>
>>> Using the hard floating point abi is incompatible with some binary
>>> libaries and 3D support for the Beagleboard. As we do not provide
>>> these in poky and meta-yocto, we can take advantage of the hard
>>> floating point abi.
>>
>> What advantage are you talking about? So far everyone has been unable
>> to provide real-world numbers[1] that show hardfp making a difference
>> compared to a properly configured softfp. The numbers debian and
>> meego are showing are comparing it against completely vfpless builds,
>
>
> That's good reasoning to stick with softfp+neon. Unfortunately I can't
> find the mail threads that first got me looking into adding hardfp
> support. As I said, I'm not sold on the idea, but it was requested so I
> looked into how to address it.
>
> If nobody comes forward saying they would really like to have this, I'm
> going to modify the patch series to disable hardfp by default, but leave
> the infrastructure in place so people can enable if they like.

Well, are there some softfp related config bits we need on the yocto
side that meta-ti has, in order to bring that performance back in
line?

-- 
Tom