[OE-core] [PATCH][RFC] cortexa8: use hard floating point

[Jason Kridner]

On Aug 18, 2011, at 3:11 AM, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:

> 
> Op 18 aug. 2011, om 08:16 heeft Darren Hart het volgende geschreven:
> 
>> From what I could gather, it makes sense to address using mfloat-abi=hard
>> for the beagleboard in the cortexa8 tune file.
> 
> It doesn't, actually. Sadly the internet is now full with posts from misinformed meego and debian people about this issue, so I see why someone might think hfp cures cancer and creates world peace.
> 
>> Before I submit this as a pull
>> request, I'd appreciate a sanity check from the Beagleboard experts.
>> 
>> Is there any reason the cortexa8 tune file should not be using "hf" by default?
> 
> Yes, it's incompatible with anything out there. The only real world app that slightly benefits from it is povray, no demonstrable gains for everything else. This also breaks the 3d drivers.
> 
> All in all this is something a DISTRO should opt-in to, not opt-out of.

Since I was in the Cc, +1.