[En-Nut-Discussion] Will the FPU from the STM32F4xx supported (context.c)?

[bon at elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de]

>>>>> "Philipp" == Philipp Burch <phip at hb9etc.ch> writes:

    Philipp> Hi Michael!  On 09/01/2013 12:43 PM, Michael Fischer wrote:
    >> Dear List,
    >> 
    >> please can someone check if the context.c from the cm3 tree is
    >> correct in case of FPU support? Compared to the ChibiOS task switch
    >> it looks that the FPU register s16-s31 will not saved/restored.
    >> 
    >> Best regards, Michael _______________________________________________
    >> http://lists.egnite.de/mailman/listinfo/en-nut-discussion

    Philipp> As far as I know, only the Cortex-M3 (without FPU) is supported
    Philipp> at the moment. context.c is architecture dependent, so it is
    Philipp> most likely that it does not know about any FPU registers.

You should be save if you only use the FPU in _one_ thread. Making the FPU
context-switch/thread safe should be a configurable item, as there are many
cases where it is not needed and the related overhead is not wanted.

Bye

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