Re: Deprecate/remove riscv64sf

Warner Losh <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.architechture
Message-ID <CANCZdfrH_yRz3e2QRz2a60MGRUnkY3qDNgTDEwpdM-XnAUt3pA@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Mar 29, 2023, 12:17 PM John Baldwin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is anyone using riscv64sf?  All of the existing RISC-V boards include
> hard-float
> support as well as QEMU.  The FPGA cores we use at Cambridge also all
> support
> hard-float.  My understanding is that glibc doesn't bother supporting
> soft-float
> on RV64.  If no one is using it (and has no plans to use it), then I
> propose
> we drop it in 14.0 and save one more buildworld from make tinderbox.
>

I agree. Iirc it was added just in case since some 32bit cores had no fp.

Warner

>
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.