On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 07:35:24AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > 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. >
That's my point. Debian armhf is something quite specific (basically, at least ARMv7 + VFPU3), and Debian armel is something else, still specific (ARM with soft FPU, so almost anything else), while Raspbian is "branded" armhf but is neither, since it is compiled for ARMv6+VFPU2, as I found out googling around. They should have called it differently. The problem wouldn't be compiling the packages, which can be done with a cross-compiler + toolchain on any more powerful piece of hw, but perhaps putting together an entire port for such a specific target, although it is a quite popular one. HND KatolaZ -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
