Loïc Minier a écrit : > In fact, I chatted with a couple of people about this port, with the > proposal that we should have an ad hoc BoF at Debconf to chose a good > name. > > During these chats, I heard other suggestions around a new port > notably, optimizing for much more recent CPUs such as armv7+. Ubuntu > did see quite a difference by moving all the way up to armv7 + thumb-2. > > Some technical issues to be aware of: > * hard float needs gcc 4.5 or a bunch of patches from 4.4; CodeSourcery > GCC 4.4 (and hopefully soon Linaro GCC 4.4) has these > * hard float is quite a win on Cortex A8, but might be much less so > on A9 -- I think on the long term we want hard float support in a > port > * there's the question of which vfp version we turn on, vfpv3 is not > supported on all armv7 SoCs (e.g. Marvell's Dove only supports > vfpv3-d16) > * some libraries need porting to hard-float, such as libffi and others >
One more technical issue, though not directly related to ARM: we need to upgrade the hard drives on the debian-ports.org machine before accepting a new port. Nothing hudge, but that may introduce a bit of delay. Alternatively we can move one port (SH4 ?) to the official Debian archive ;-) -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 [email protected] http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
