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
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http://blog.cerowrt.org
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