Re: Bug#770009: convert(1) very slow on mips with no FPU

James Cowgill <[email protected]> Sun, 16 Aug 2015 00:36:04 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.ports.mips
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Sat, 2015-08-15 at 23:18 +0200, roucaries bastien wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 10:30 PM, roucaries bastien
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 10:16 PM, roucaries bastien
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 9:43 PM, James Cowgill <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Yes the ABI is different - you need a recompiled glibc (at least) to
> > > > use -msoft-float.
> > > 
> > > Could this handled like libc-i686 ? It will be really helpful to have
> > > a soft-float version and use ld.so to switch between.
> > 
> > They are a thread here about multilib
> > https://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/cross-distro/2012-April/000167.html

It could work, but I don't think mixed soft/hard float systems are
supported very well (probably not many people are crazy enough to want
this). You would need to use an alternate (and non standard) dynamic
linker path, and some patches will be needed so ld/ld.so chooses the
right library.

> BTW information about mips box are outdated here
> https://wiki.debian.org/MIPSPort

Thanks. I can add some of the newer buildds, but I don't know exactly
which ones have been retired.

> It worked under ball but it seems ball was retired...

I think ball did have an FPU.
Thanks,
James

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