>On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 03:47:56 +0100
>Arnt Karlsen <[email protected]> wrote:

>> On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 22:32:29 +0000, s@po wrote in message 
>> <[email protected]>:
>> 
>> > Even tough that the Userspace is Armel, the Kernel is armhf..
> 
> ...which was raspberrypi.org's big messy goof, calling their 
> debian armel architecture fork "armhf", rather than calling 
> their first product e.g. "raspberrypi" or some such original 
> name for their first original armel_6_+7ish_hard_float arch.
> 
ARM is the one to blame..
They initially told people that armv6 with vfp will be included in aarch32..

But then,
When they created aarch32( the real one...armv7...it has a vfpv3 at least I 
believe, vector extensions were droped in favour of SIMD NEON 1.0.. ), that 
idea was droped..
So armv6 could not be in aarch32.. because aarch32 or armv7, is a new 
architecture..

So compilers for Hardfloat target armv7 only,
And not armv6( for which some processors have vfp.. )

So you end with armel for armv6 with vfp( that's why I compiled kernel with 
hardfloat support, but the userspace is Devuan, so armel.. ).
Also,
Armel targets ARMv5T, ARMv6( unfortunatly even processors armv6 with vfp, are 
in that group of arm32 != aarch32 )

-- 
tux <[email protected]>
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