Re: libsoft retiring
- In reply to: Warner Losh : "libsoft retiring"
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Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2022 11:25:00 UTC
On 6/01/2022 10:58 am, Warner Losh wrote: > Greetings, > > I implemented libsoft on arm for the FreeBSD 10 -> FreeBSD 11 transition from using the 'softfp' ABI (where hardware float was used, but registers were passed in integer registers) to the 'hardfp' ABI we've used ever since. > > libsoft has been turned off since I added it as an option in 2016 6 months before the 11.0 release. Several people used it at the time to transition their 32-bit armv6 FreeBSD 10 (or 11-current) boards to armv7 FreeBSD 11. Since then I know of nobody that's used it. > > I think that it's time to retire the option entirely. https://reviews.freebsd.org/D33761 has the bits to remove it. > > Comments? > > Warner Somewhat related, does anything happen to wiki pages referencing this? Deleted, updated to show deprecation, remain static for posterity, etc? https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/hardabi MJ