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Commit f52692ed authored by Yann E. MORIN's avatar Yann E. MORIN Committed by Thomas Petazzoni
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arch/arm: add option to enable an optional VFP unit



Currently, the VFP selection for ARM is a little bit muddy:
  - some CPUs definitely do not have a VFP or NEON,
  - some CPUs definitely do have a VFP or NEON,
  - some CPUs may have a VFP or NEON.

However, we currently conflate the availability of the VFP/NEON with the
possibility to use them. Even is the user chooses a floating point
strategy with a 'lower' solution (i.e. VFPv2 when a VFPv3 exists, or not
using NEON when the CPU has it), some packages are still using the
CPU-defined HW availaibility rather thean the usr's selection.

Furthermore, for CPU that may have a VFP/NEON, there is no way for the
user to actually specify that the HW is indeed available; the user can
only specify the floating point strategy. This means that some packages
or some package versions, like nodejs for example, can not be properly
selected on some CPU cores, like Cortex-A9 which only may have a VFP.

Like we have an option to enable an optional NEON unit, add a similar
option to enable an optional VFP unit.

Signed-off-by: default avatar"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
parent b64bcbf5
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