[kaffe] Anyone working on ARM VFP + EABI support ?

[Ronald Sloot]

I am afraid I don't have a choice but to use the latest gcc tool chain
as I need EABI support. Yes, QEMU supports VFP (I am using QEMU before I
switch to hardware) but the JITer does not emit VFP opcodes - it emits
FPA (Floating Point Accelerator) opcodes which are not compatible. As
far as I know ARM considers FPA to be obsolete and is not supported
anymore by version 2 of the ABI for the ARM architecture.

Ronald
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kiyo Inaba [mailto:inaba at src.ricoh.co.jp] 
> Sent: 06 July 2007 10:46
> To: Ronald Sloot
> Cc: inaba at src.ricoh.co.jp; kaffe at kaffe.org
> Subject: Re: [kaffe] Anyone working on ARM VFP + EABI support ?
> 
> Ronald,
> 
> Ronald Sloot wrote:
> >At the moment we are trying to first pass all the jitBasic 
> test cases.
> >We updated the jit-arm.def to emit VFP instructions instead 
> of VPA and 
> >made some other temporary changes related to EABI. We've not 
> passed all 
> >jitBasic test cases yet. Will keep you posted. Note: we use 
> gcc 4.1.1, 
> >kernel 2.6.17. At the moment Kaffe only emits FPA 
> instructions instead 
> >of VFP. I assume your target uses FPA ?
> 
> The FPU for arm is something mysterious (at least) for me. 
> What currently I use is the FPU on (or in) QEMU  (see 
> http://www.aurel32.net/info/debian_arm_qemu.php for more 
> detail) and I guess it is FPA according to
> http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiPort#head-292fb677a89b53821056f2
> 69bc5744e014cacfd7
> 
> As far as gcc is concerned, I have some difficulty to use 4.x 
> version, and if you can do, I recommend to start with gcc3.x.
> 
> Kiyo
> 
> 

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