How can one tell if a device supports an FPU? Specifically the MSM7200A chip.
Reading Porting to a new device I came accross the sentence "...it needs to have an FPU".
Actually I tried to find out if a Samsung Galaxy GT-i7500 would still be a possible target. As this is an old device from 2009 I wondered if already the first requirement is fulfilled...
I came accross issues #1203 (closed) and #1592 (closed) for other devices that mention also missing FPUs.
Due to the wikipedia article the i7500 has a possibly similar and even older MSM7200A chip. Also I found #20 (closed) about another porting attempt for the same device.
This PDF contains following:
The MSM7200A in Hero utilizes the CPU core ARM1136EJ-S which does not have a Vector Floating-Point coprocessor (VFP), and thus have no hardware for calculating floating points.
An cyanogenmod kernel running at the i7500 shows this in dmesg:
<4>[ 0.000000] CPU: ARMv6-compatible processor [4117b362] revision 2 (ARMv6TEJ), cr=00c5387f
And /proc/cpuinfo contains this:
Processor : ARMv6-compatible processor rev 2 (v6l)
BogoMIPS : 527.56
Features : swp half thumb fastmult edsp java
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 6TEJ
CPU variant : 0x1
CPU part : 0xb36
CPU revision : 2
Hardware : galaxy
Revision : 0000
Serial : 0000000000000000
So can I go ahead and add the i7500 to the "Not booting" section of the Devices page? If yes, the Wikipedia article mentions other devices using that chip - should I add them too?
Is there any way to query FPU support from a running android (that can be added to the porting guide)?