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Altera_Forum
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14 years ago

Using FPU with uCLinux

Hello folks, i'am just trying to use the floating-point-unit within my uCLinux dist. I have added the corresponding custom instruction to the cpu within my sopc-builder system. After that i co...
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14 years ago

Thank you for your replys.

I have an application, where i need to implement some floating-point operations. I have just started with uCLinux dist. I only got a little bit confused, because MUL and DIV hardware is recognized and also displayed by the cpuinfo but FPU not.

So i will try to compile some benchmark applications with and without FPU to figure out the performance impact....

By the way:

How do you compile your User-Space application?

I would like to do this via Eclipse...Any experience about this?

How can i place simple files (eg. sh-scripts) into the initial file-system?