docs/develop: More reorganization.
* There is now a 'busses' folder, and the extant USB/SDHCI/Bluetooth/etc. docs now live in it, instead of various other places. * kernel/ports is now kernel/arch, like it is in src/system. SPARC documentation is now in there, too. * VM files (these are rather outdated) are now in kernel/vm. * SCSI ASC info removed, this is easily available online and it doesn't seem to be very relevant.
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Notes on long double support
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The "long double" type is different on each architecture. Depending on the
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available hardware and ABI conventions, performance compromises, etc, there
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may be many implementations of it. Here is a summary for our convenience.
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128-bit IEEE
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Platforms: Sparc, ARM64, RISC-V
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This is the standard long double type from IEEE754. It has 1 sign bit,
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15 exponent bit, and 112 fractional part bits. It is the natural extension
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of the 64bit double.
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Sparc specifies this type in their ABI but no implementation actually has
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the instructions, they instead trigger a trap which would software emulate
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them. However, gcc short circuits this by default and calls C library
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support functions directly.
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64-bit IEEE
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-----------
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Platforms: ARM
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This is the same representation as plain "double". ARM uses this for simplicity.
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80-bit
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------
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Platform: x86, x86\_64, m68k
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This intermediate format is used by x86 CPUs internally. It may end up being
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faster than plain double there. It consists of a 64bit fractional part, 15
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exponent bits, and 1 sign bit. This is convenient because the fractional part
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is a relatively easy to handle 64bit number.
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m68k uses a similar format, but padded to 96 bits (the extra 16 bits are unused).
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double double
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-------------
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Platforms: PowerPC?
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This is also a 128bit type, but the representation is just two 64bit doubles.
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The value is the sum of the two halves. This format allows faster emulation
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than a "true" 128bit long double, and the precision is almost as good.
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