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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Announcing RISC-V
Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 19:45:25
Message-Id: 101a02449691efcd2000acec0d81f24c8f1f51fa.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Announcing RISC-V by Andrew Savchenko
1 On Sat, 2019-05-18 at 22:34 +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
2 > On Sat, 18 May 2019 20:47:28 +0200 Michał Górny wrote:
3 > > On Fri, 2019-05-03 at 23:34 +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
4 > > > * We will initially add two profiles to profile.desc:
5 > > > default/linux/riscv/17.0/rv64gc/lp64d (non-multilib, 64bit hardfloat)
6 > > > default/linux/riscv/17.0/rv64gc (multilib lp64d/lp64, i.e. hard/softfloat)
7 > >
8 > > I still don't understand the purpose of this multilib. If you have
9 > > a hardfloat CPU, why would you ever build some of the software
10 > > softfloat?
11 >
12 > One may have binary-only software which requires softfloat
13 > dependencies.
14 >
15
16 I'd like to see such software for riscv.
17
18 --
19 Best regards,
20 Michał Górny

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Announcing RISC-V William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>