Re: NetBSD on SH-4A
Masao Uebayashi <[email protected]> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:10:51 +0900
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sh3 |
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> Look at how other arches do it and do the same for SH-4 FPU. FPU > autodetection would be nice, but compile-time kernel option could do > for now. Shouldn't be hard, but I never got around to it as real life > keep interfering. If you could work on it and contribute the code > back, that would be very helpful (we don't have much NetBSD/sh3 > developers). OpenBSD already has the code. One problem I think of is binary compatibility. NetBSD/sh3 is basically soft-float. Probably we can set a flag somewhere in ELF header and let incompatible executables die gracefully? Masao