Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:39:16 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/arm support for Marvell chips -- please review Message-ID: <EE9B72F4-81C9-421B-B06B-CA54760963CF@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20081010.111120.-1704377131.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <48DA31B3.5040906@semihalf.com> <48EF2481.2010307@semihalf.com> <F2854257-4DC0-4812-8D04-F42DC44D8EFC@mac.com> <20081010.111120.-1704377131.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Oct 10, 2008, at 10:11 AM, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : I have some tweaks to add later. For example: > : FPA support on little endian ARM (FPA has the words in > : big-endian, irrespective of the byte order). We have > : 4 places where we define the IEEE representation and > : where we need to account for this. > > FPA? The original FP format used by some ARM processors. Obsoleted by VFP AFAICT. VFP is like FPA, except that VFP has the words of a double in the native byte order. FPA always has the words in big-endian order. -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com
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