Am Montag 11 April 2011, 15:21:50 schrieb Thiago Macieira:
> 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? 

The _scheduler_ inside OBS is called "armv8el", the rpm architecture is 
armv7hl . This is just a name and no reference to "ARMv8". We just had no time 
to jump to a newer OBS release (which has armv7el + armv7hl), so we took the 
unused placeholder "armv8el" to get hardfp up asap and have to deal with the 
naming confusion. 

So for the records - currently we have:  
* armv7el = armv7l softfp
* armv8el = armv7l hardfp

In the next version of OBS, there are then:
* armv7el = armv7l softfp
* armv7hl = armv7l hardfp
(* armv8el = unused/future)

> All I can find about it are future references,
> like:

Yes, this is no ARM arch name, just a scheduler naming.

> Also, an "ARMv8" build implies that it doesn't run on ARMv7 hardware. I
> think that would be extremely short-sighted.

As noted above, the next version of OBS has armv7hl and things will be in sync 
again.

HTH.

Best,
Jan-Simon
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