On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 01:27:19PM +1100, Simon Wise wrote: > >>My understanding is that both the rpi0 and rpi1 are based on a ARMv6 > >>chip, which makes them closer to armel than to armhf. So, I'm afraid > >>you're stuck with raspbian for now. > > raspbian is in between armel and armhf because debian armel is (or was then) > compiled without hard float support while debian armhf is compiled for arm7 > ... so since PIs are arm6 with FPU neither is suitable ... raspbian is > compiled to suit PIs.
Actually, armel _is_ perfectly suitable, just a bit slower. However, rapbian guys wanted to use all the computing power of pi's CPU, and thus used a debased version of armhf. They really should have named the architecture different. -- A tit a day keeps the vet away. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
