[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi] Why not enable hard floating point?

[J. Tang]

On 2015-01-15, at 04:06, Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans at topic.nl> wrote:

> -2- The CPU doesn't actually have floating point support and the kernel is emulating it for you. This allows the platform to run "hf" binaries, at a minor performance cost compared to completely doing the emulation in user space (libc).

From my understanding, the Raspberry Pi (at least the model B, which is what I have) has an FPU.

Would it hurt to at least mention in the top-level README of the meta-raspberrypi layer that a user could enable hard FP by setting the DEFAULTTUNE?

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Jason Tang  /  tang at jtang.org