[Bug 1740] Change PowerPC multi-libs for e200 and e500 cores

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https://www.rtems.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1740

--- Comment #25 from Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> 2011-03-01 09:02:23 CST ---
(In reply to comment #24)
> I emailed the people listed on the math_efp.c file and this file apparently is
> just the tip.
> 
> ======
> Is the interest in the decode logic in math_efp.c or the actual IEEE fixup
> code?  The fixup code utilized the GPL FP emulation library code so I think
> we'd be hard pressed to license that under BSD (which is the more difficult
> part of the work).
> ======
> 
> How should I respond?  If they relicense the math_efp.c decode file, where do
> we get the fixup code from?

Thanks Joel for the update. Maybe they have some example code independent of
Linux at Freescale.  I will also contact a local representative from Freescale.

On the other hand this IEEE 754 issue is not a show stopper for the multi-lib
changes.

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