[yocto] TARGET_FPU for mpc8315e-rdb listed as SPE??

[Kumar Gala]

On Nov 10, 2010, at 7:58 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:

> On 10-11-10 08:38 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> On 10-11-10 01:46 AM, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>> Why does the meta/conf/machine/mpc8315e-rdb.conf list TARGET_FPU as
>>> SPE. This isn't correct for an MPC8313 SoC.
>> 
>> It isn't used at the moment, so we can safely
>> ignore this.
>> 
>> It was a hold over from when I initially created
>> the BSP, and I've since changed it locally, but
>> haven't sent the updated BSP yet.
> 
> To clarify on this point, the kernel configuration
> is NOT using SPE for this, and I was attempting to
> use the FPU setting to trigger some different gcc
> flags during development the base of that test was
> an e500 board, so the SPE setting leaked in, but is
> unused.
> 
> At the moment, it is actually using soft-float, and
> I had planned to submit a change to clarify that.
> 
> If there's another option, let me know and I'll
> rebase my patches and change it again.

We should NOT be using soft-float for mpc8315e (it has HW floating point on this chip).

Any plans to get an e500 based system going before the rev1.0 release?

- k