From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/4031 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Szabolcs Nagy Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Arm AArch64 port - search for interested people Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:58:51 +0200 Message-ID: <20130911125851.GE5116@port70.net> References: Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1378904340 9841 80.91.229.3 (11 Sep 2013 12:59:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 12:59:00 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-4035-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Wed Sep 11 14:59:05 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VJk0d-0007y5-TL for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:59:04 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 21930 invoked by uid 550); 11 Sep 2013 12:59:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 21922 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2013 12:59:03 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:4031 Archived-At: * Bortis Kevin [2013-09-11 13:38:03 +0200]: > Is someone interessted to help out with a musl ARM Aarch64 port? I got > the message, that I will receive a dev board Q2/2014 for a new project, > so I hope to have a working musl toolchain by then :) > > I have started a wiki page where I gather all Information needed for the > port. First step will be, learn A64 assembler/registers and get the ARM > Foundation Model running with a Linux distribution. I also hope that the > musl documentation with information on musl internals and porting will > be finished by then ;) > > http://wiki.musl-libc.org/wiki/Porting/AArch64 it seems long double is IEEE binary128 in the abi, but there are no quad precision fp instructions.. so good that i did not remove the ld128 code from libm, however complete support will take some time.. and it will depend on the soft-float implementation in gcc which has fenv issues