On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 09:21:59PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Right. I've asked before who's still using v4t machines, and the > common response is "just openmoko". Thanks for mentioning others. > > We've been pestered several times by toolchain developers and > upstreams for various other projects that generate code for ARM > (e.g. JITs in browsers). It seems that Debian is about the only place > where anybody still cares about v4t any more, so we'll be the only > people seeing bugs related to broken (or even missing) v4 support > now. > > Even Debian moves on, dropping support for older platforms from time > to time. We don't support actual i386 hardware any more, for example.
I remember Debian had a kernel patch to try and keep i386 going even after glibc wanted to move to i486+ only. So it was not by choice that Debian dropped i386. The lack of the atomic swap instruction seems to be what killed i386 support. > I've asked people for benchmarks to show the improvements (or lack of > them) that might come from a move to v5te. If there isn't a compelling > case for moving, we won't! Certainly no one seems able to state that there is any real advantage to v5te over v4. I don't have any v4 hardware myself, but I do sometimes play with v5te hardware, but mainly I care about the armhf on v7. I don't like to see old hardware die without good cause though. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
