On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 09:45:15PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> 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.

I'm curious myself, just because I don't know this architecture.
Is there prebuilt software like this, or are we just supporting some
theoretical option that we don't know for sure exists?

Thanks,

William