[OE-core] armhf support in OpenEmbedded?

[Philip Balister]

On 02/06/2012 04:17 PM, Koen Kooi wrote:
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> Op 6 feb. 2012, om 22:01 heeft Leon Woestenberg het volgende geschreven:
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>> Hello,
>>
>> do we already have support for the ARM "armhf" ABI in OpenEmbedded?  (A quick search on the ML didn't get me hits).
>>
>> Basically,"armhf" is built with -mfloat-abi=hard, and tuned for armv7-a CPUs.
> 
> Yes, we've had it for ages in OE-classic and Marks tune overhaul made it easy to use in OE-core as well. Also note that armhf has practically no adavantage over softfp in real world applications. The only things getting a decent speedup in proper benchmarks was povray.

>From what I saw, the big win for hf is for functions that return floats.
I try to avoid writing functions that return floats and use pointers to
the variable :)

Philip