On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 05:11:23PM +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: > More and more VFP-supporting CPUs are coming out lately, and it would > be nice to be able to use VFP on them in a sane way. The existing > Debian EABI efforts have been taking a while, so November 24 last year > I started working on a from-scratch EABI port, sponsored by Applied > Data Systems (http://www.applieddata.net/) Six and a half weeks later, > there's about 6000 debs built, and so far it all seems to work pretty > well.
Impressive :) > I can't share the debs yet (internal and customer use only for now), Is publishing estimated how soon? IE. Should someone start writing a more official announcement that clarifies to the non-arm people why the new port is usefull? > I asked Joey Hess, and he felt that there are probably more packages > that depend on linux-gnu than on having gnueabi, which makes sense. > The only packages that really need to know about gnueabi are binutils, > gcc and glibc, the rest should just be checking defined(__ARM_EABI__). > Opinions? I agree, we have a pile of patches (mostly against sarge versions..). Most of them do not really make sense, linux-gnueabi is effectively linux-gnu. IIRC In non-toolchain apps, the only eabi patch where you acually needed to be different was perl, where perl optimizes for armv3 on oldabi arm. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
