[meta-xilinx] gcc with hard float for Zynq

[Philip Balister]

On 10/16/2014 08:39 AM, Mike Looijmans wrote:
> On 10/16/2014 01:23 AM, Richard Cagley wrote:
>> when I bitbake core-image-minimal-dev I get gcc for native compilation
>> on the target. But, it doesn't appear to provide hard float support.
>> Is there a way to configure so I can use -mfloat-abi=hard?
> 
> The default is to use hard float support, but not between libraries. So
> all your code will use hard float (mixed NEON and VFP instructions),
> it's only when passing floats to other libraries it uses the standard
> registers instead of the floating point stack to exchange the data. This
> usually has no impact on performance, unless in some very particular
> circumstances.
> 

Urg, I just realized my earlier answer is for a different problem.
Answering email late at night ....

Yes the native sdk defaults do not match the tune settings for the
build. Thanks for reminding me of this, I need to talk to some of the OE
guys today and see what we can do about this.

Philip