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On 9/19/21 7:36 PM, Huacai Chen wrote:
> Hi, Arnd,
> 
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 5:59 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 9:12 AM Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 5:10 AM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
>>>> For example does LoongArch have a version without built in floating
>>>> point support?
>>>
>>> Some of these structures seems need rethinking, But we really have
>>> LoongArch-based MCUs now (no FP, no SMP, and even no MMU).
>>
>> NOMMU Linux is kind-of on the way out as interest is fading, so I hope you
>> don't plan on supporting this in the future.
>>
>> Do you expect to see future products with MMU but no FP or no SMP?
> OK, we will not care no-MMU hardware in Linux, but no-FP and no-SMP
> hardware will be supported.

Please consider requiring the FP registers to be present even on no-FP hardware.

With this plus the FP data movement instructions (FMOV, MOVGR2FR, MOVFR2GR, FLD, FST), it 
is possible to implement soft-float without requiring a separate soft-float ABI.  This can 
vastly simplify compatibility and deployment.


r~