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>>>>> "Sergei" == Sergei Organov <osv@javad.ru> writes: Sergei> Hello; Is any active work started to support floating Sergei> point context in eCos? Is there any preliminary info about Sergei> it (FP context switch policies, required changes to HAL Sergei> and API interfaces, etc.)? Is it planned to have FP Sergei> support in the next release of PPC target? I found the Sergei> only reference to the FP support in the eCos distribution Sergei> (in the TODO list). There is no active work at present on floating point context support, or the other aspects of hardware floating point support such as additional exception handlers. At this stage none of the supported architectures have hardware floating point support so the issue has not arisen. Instead we provide floating point through software emulation in the libm package. When somebody starts working with a processor which does have hardware floating point it will be necessary to define the appropriate HAL extensions, including details of desirable configuration options. This has not yet happened. However there are plans for Cygnus to support PPC variants with floating point hardware, so it is certainly going to happen. Bart Veer // eCos net maintainer