2011/4/11 Thiago Macieira <[email protected]>: > Em segunda-feira, 11 de abril de 2011, às 15:28:59, Juha Kallioinen escreveu: >> The hardfp scheduler is called armv8el and is up and running in MeeGo Trunk. > > Why are we calling it ARMv8? All I can find about it are future references, Long story short, we ran into a problem where the setup of OBS would make it difficult to have a 'armv7hl' scheduler - problems like not adding new features to a stable branch of OBS.
As we couldn't get the patches into stable branch, after a month of trying to get things working organisationally, we went for the thing that made sure we got hardfp into MeeGo 1.2 in time, or we would have not been able to (and hence never). armv8el is an unfortunate side-effect of that. However, it is important to remember that 'armv7el' and 'armv8el' is just a name inside the OBS and what matters is the RPM architectures (armv7hl). You could practically have armv4 binaries inside a armv5el scheduler and so on. As we couldn't risk to mix softfp and hardfp binaries, we couldn't just reuse the armv7el scheduler name. BR Carsten Munk > like: > http://drdobbs.com/210800195 > > and talking about future processors like the Cortex-A10. > > There's absolutely nothing about ARMv8 in ARM's website: > http://www.google.com/search?q=armv8+site%3Aarm.com > > Also, an "ARMv8" build implies that it doesn't run on ARMv7 hardware. I think > that would be extremely short-sighted. > > -- > Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org > Senior Product Manager - Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks > PGP/GPG: 0x6EF45358; fingerprint: > E067 918B B660 DBD1 105C 966C 33F5 F005 6EF4 5358 > > _______________________________________________ > MeeGo-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev > http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines > _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines
