2011/5/13 martin brook <[email protected]>: > Now on the ARM side there are a number of SOC vendors producing > hardware which would be great targets for MeeGo if we had the right > driver support. As an example of where we are on the graphics side of > things :- > Only OMAP 3 devices (N900, Beagleboard) can be used by the latest > hardfp versions of MeeGo. To clarify, the hardfp port itself runs fine on all known ARMv7-A chipsets (even more than in armv7l port), what is mentioned is about hardware support binary blobs a provider.
There was an announced ABI break, notified back in December and approved by TSG. There are hints Android is going hardfp as well and Linaro is definately going same direction (just look at the amount of sessions about it at UDS). Even Fedora is working on it. We're disadvantaged for being first movers on this to some extent (but also benefiting from the performance), but we would potentially have ended up in similar situation during time with MeeGo being forced to stay on softfp for compliance reasons and Linaro as an example, only publishing hardfp blobs. The only thing eventual hardware vendors has to do, is to build their hw support bits using a mfloat-abi=hard toolchain. This isn't an unknown request in the business, to build using a certain toolchain/against a certain sysroot. And there's all the help in the world within the MeeGo community if they have problems doing so. It'll take some time, companies will ask for it from their SoC vendors - it's about pushing for it. We made a choice to make the switch now or never. 1.2 is coming out, armv7hl is the chosen ARM architecture, armv7l is no longer being built for 1.2 and hasn't been for a little while now. We have to trust in that we made the right choice, given all technical directions. I personally and professionally believe it is - especially when seeing the performance improvements. /Carsten > > Do any of the vendors mentioned want to put a yes in the last column > as INTEL have done so well with the GMA500. > > I'm tracking the interest with this bug > https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17570 > > vgrade > _______________________________________________ > 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
