On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 00:15 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: > On 03.02.2012, at 00:11, Hector Oron wrote: > > > Hello Jo, > > > > I am forwarding the message to a couple mailing lists which might have > > people interested on the Mono porting for ARM hard-float ABI. > > > > 2012/2/2 Jo Shields <direct...@apebox.org>: > >> Right now, Mono is available in Debian armhf. This is a hack - what > >> we're actually doing is building Mono as an armhf binary, but built to > >> emit soft VFP instructions and using calling conventions and ABI for > >> armel. This hack works well enough for pure cross-platform code (like > >> the C# compiler) to run, but dies in a heap for anything complex. > >> > >> This situation is a bit on the crappy side of crap. > >> > >> In order for Mono on armhf not to be a waste of time, a "true" port > >> needs to be completed. If I were to make a not-remotely-educated guess, > >> I'd say it needs about 550 lines of changes, primarily the addition of > >> code to emit the correct instructions feeling the correct registers in > >> mono/mini/mini-arm.c plus a couple of tweaks to related headers. > >> > >> Upstream have also indicated that they're happy to provide guidance and > >> pointers on how to implement this port, although they're unable to > >> provide the requisite code themselves. > >> > >> Sadly, unless someone in the community is able to step forward and > >> contribute here, it's only a matter of time before the armhf packages > >> are rightfully marked RC-buggy, and 100+ packages need to be axed from > >> armhf. This would make me sad. > > Please check our mono arm patches in OBS: > > > https://build.opensuse.org/package/files?package=mono-core&project=openSUSE%3AFactory%3AARM > > While slightly hacky, they enable full armhf support for arm. At least for us > it's worked pretty well. Mono is a rather core dependency of a lot of stuff.
Are these really giving you everything you need for openSUSE w/ hardfloat? They don't really seem very different from what we're doing in Debian, i.e. using the existing VFP softfloat code
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