[FE training-materials-updates] Most of the ARM SoCs nowadays have support for hard float

Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com
Wed Oct 2 14:52:44 CEST 2013


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On branch  : kernel-ng
Link       : http://git.free-electrons.com/training-materials/commit/?id=96ed13c496065bf02ff4d4c91924f33faddae456

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commit 96ed13c496065bf02ff4d4c91924f33faddae456
Author: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>
Date:   Wed Oct 2 14:50:01 2013 +0200

    Most of the ARM SoCs nowadays have support for hard float
    
    Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>


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96ed13c496065bf02ff4d4c91924f33faddae456
 .../kernel-source-code-drivers.tex                 |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/slides/kernel-source-code-drivers/kernel-source-code-drivers.tex b/slides/kernel-source-code-drivers/kernel-source-code-drivers.tex
index 4588865..e0233ee 100644
--- a/slides/kernel-source-code-drivers/kernel-source-code-drivers.tex
+++ b/slides/kernel-source-code-drivers/kernel-source-code-drivers.tex
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@
   \frametitle{No floating point computation}
   \begin{itemize}
   \item Never use floating point numbers in kernel code. Your code may
-    be run on a processor without a floating point unit (like on ARM).
+    be run on a processor without a floating point unit (like on
+    certain ARM CPUs).
   \item Don't be confused with floating point related configuration
     options
     \begin{itemize}



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