From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8FF38138334 for ; Sat, 18 May 2019 19:45:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 36ECCE0990; Sat, 18 May 2019 19:45:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E674FE0985 for ; Sat, 18 May 2019 19:45:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pomiot (d202-252.icpnet.pl [109.173.202.252]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mgorny) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C9C9C344250; Sat, 18 May 2019 19:45:18 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <101a02449691efcd2000acec0d81f24c8f1f51fa.camel@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Announcing RISC-V From: =?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_G=C3=B3rny?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 21:45:15 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20190518223430.64d3be1c07ad9398122a78b6@gentoo.org> References: <4272082.Ai3X7YLVuo@pinacolada> <388157f1f18d6f66618ab93d0daf2b40e89a6bf1.camel@gentoo.org> <20190518223430.64d3be1c07ad9398122a78b6@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" User-Agent: Evolution 3.30.5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 16b94840-4f44-42f5-b994-0e94ea0b756a X-Archives-Hash: 093a68ce093c3763155a8d6a33de1906 On Sat, 2019-05-18 at 22:34 +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Sat, 18 May 2019 20:47:28 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > > On Fri, 2019-05-03 at 23:34 +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > > * We will initially add two profiles to profile.desc: > > > default/linux/riscv/17.0/rv64gc/lp64d (non-multilib, 64bit hardfloat) > > > default/linux/riscv/17.0/rv64gc (multilib lp64d/lp64, i.e. hard/softfloat) > > > > I still don't understand the purpose of this multilib. If you have > > a hardfloat CPU, why would you ever build some of the software > > softfloat? > > One may have binary-only software which requires softfloat > dependencies. > I'd like to see such software for riscv. -- Best regards, Michał Górny