On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Nic Cyn <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Ahh.. since when does the "kernel" depend on "mono/floats/date" ?
>>
> Admittedly, the float issue is a mono problem and there is no reason why the
> BBB standard release should have to pander to it on that basis alone.
>
> However, being able to install mono with a simple apt-get could make the BBB
> useful to a wider audience. Maybe it is possible to install mono on BBB with
> a soft float kernel but I sure could not get it to work - I am not
> especially expert at this sort of thing.

"soft float kernel" umm... "floating point" is not allowed in the
kernel api <period>... (recently there has been added neon
acceleration drivers, yet they still need to talk to the kernel in
"non-float" abi..)

> Maybe there are other good reasons to go armhf - maybe there are a lot of
> good reasons to avoid it. I really do not know. I just thought I would raise
> the subject to see if it had been considered.

Maybe "fix" mono in debian???

Regards,

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Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/

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