On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Jonathan Morton <chromati...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 24 Jun, 2016, at 01:57, Juliusz Chroboczek >> <j...@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr> wrote: >> >>> the long slow EABI changeover that was obsoleted almost overnight by the >>> armhf work the raspian folk did, and so on. >> >> I am pretty positive that armhf predates raspbian. Let's please give >> credit where credit is due. > > Ironically, it was I who demonstrated to the Raspbian folks the benefits of > an armhf build for the R-Pi 1, back in the early days of that platform. It > seems like an awfully long time ago now. :-)
Yes, it was a group team of hackers going against the prevailing wisdom of endless backward compatibility, and succeeding due to technical excellence and demonstrable performance improvements - that's why that story sticks with me. I admire anybody that can do that. :) -- Dave Täht Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software! http://blog.cerowrt.org _______________________________________________ Babel-users mailing list Babel-users@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/babel-users
