Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System
Hi Matt,
The MVME3100 is based on the MPC8540 processor. This chip doesn't have an FPU.
Other boards do (eg. mvme270x, mvme6100, or mvme2500) and RTEMS supports this.
I can certainly confirm that lack of an FPU really hurts performance, even
something as (apparently) simple as integer to float.
Michael
On 06/06/2018 02:03 PM, Matt Rippa wrote:
> It appears we've compiled our mvme3100 bsp without FPU support.
> We're on the mvme3100 running EPICS 3.14.12.7 and RTEMS 4.10.2.
>
> We're attempting to commission our astrometric kernel control system
> and we've run into trouble meeting some of our thread deadlines. What
> we've found is a transform routine that takes our mvme2700 ~200 us,
> takes the mvme3100 ~8 ms. So not a surprise to see this with only "-msoft-float"?
>
> ...
> 2018-05-31-tcs.log:May 31 11:41:15 E) PORT: tcs_vme, MSG: Welcome to rtems-4.10.2(PowerPC/Generic (*no FPU*)/mvme3100)
>
> Is FPU support possible with RTEMS 4.10.2? If so, what would we need to do?
> It looks like there's a multilib on 4.11.2 https://docs.rtems.org/releases/rtems-docs-4.11.2/cpu-supplement/powerpc.html#multilibs(*Eg., see #13* )
>
> Here's our bsp specs:
>
> beatnik:
> -specs bsp_specs -qrtems -fasm -c -mcpu=7400 -D__ppc_generic -DUNIX -O2 -g -g -Wall
> (mvme2700) mvme-2307:
> -specs bsp_specs -qrtems -fasm -c -mcpu=604 -mmultiple -mstring -mstrict-align -meabi -DUNIX -O2 -g -g -Wall
> mvme-3100
> -specs bsp_specs -qrtems -fasm -c -mcpu=powerpc *-msoft-float* -D__ppc_generic -DUNIX -O2 -g -g -Wall
>
> Thank you!
> -Matt
>
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