[PATCH] sparc: Rename NGMP to GR740 and add configs for UT699, UT700, and GR712RC

[Jiri Gaisler]

It was my understanding that later versions of GCC no longer use FPU
registers for integer variables. If so, then the -msoft-float option is
not needed when compiling the kernel.

Jiri.


On 07/13/2017 10:43 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> All the BSPs use -msoft-float. How do we want to address the
> soft-float vs. hard-float issue on SPARC? This is a never ending story
> so far. Is soft-float really used in the majority of applications? All
> the users I talked up to now said they use hard-float.
>
> What about enabling SPARC_USE_SAFE_FP_SUPPORT also in uniprocessor
> configurations and maybe add a lazy floating point safe as an
> optimization?
>
>