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On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 09:45:15PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2019-05-18 at 22:34 +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: |
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> > On Sat, 18 May 2019 20:47:28 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > > On Fri, 2019-05-03 at 23:34 +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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> > > > * We will initially add two profiles to profile.desc: |
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> > > > default/linux/riscv/17.0/rv64gc/lp64d (non-multilib, 64bit hardfloat) |
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> > > > default/linux/riscv/17.0/rv64gc (multilib lp64d/lp64, i.e. hard/softfloat) |
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> > > I still don't understand the purpose of this multilib. If you have |
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> > > a hardfloat CPU, why would you ever build some of the software |
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> > > softfloat? |
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> > One may have binary-only software which requires softfloat |
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> > dependencies. |
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> I'd like to see such software for riscv. |
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I'm curious myself, just because I don't know this architecture. |
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Is there prebuilt software like this, or are we just supporting some |
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theoretical option that we don't know for sure exists? |
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Thanks, |
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William |
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