Bug#962485: Please revert CONFIG_MIPS_O32_FP64_SUPPORT change mipsel

Moin

On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 10:15:02AM +0800, YunQiang Su wrote:
> > Could the mips porters comment on this? Given that we're close to the release
> > of bullseye, I'm not convinced it's a good idea to change this now.

This option is also a dependency of several types of CPU support.  So it
might not be feasable to disable.

> Yes. It will be a problem to run with buster's golang program on
> bullseys's kernel.
> Let's have another way to get this problem sloved without revert this changes.

Sure, by discontinuing support for go on mips for example.

> Maybe detect the golang applications and run them in FP32 mode?

The kernel already does.  But it seems go decided to set the FPXX marker
on it's objects.  See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/39435

Bastian