Donna Whisnant dewhisna@dewtronics.com writes:
It would just be a matter of deciding if the code looks cleaner to keep the two totally separate or to just have a few special-cases for the soft-FP mode. If you'd like, I can write the soft-FP case and submit it, and that would keep from backing us in a corner of only supporting hard-FP with Wine. It could allow Wine to be used on many other ARM type devices out there.
The thing is that we need hard-float for binary compatibility, which should be the default behavior. I'm not opposed to having a soft-float option that you could request explicitly for special cases, though without a demonstrated use case, I'm concerned that the code would just bit-rot.