Author: David Schneider <[email protected]> Branch: extradoc Changeset: r4969:2c2a6d3a67ad Date: 2013-05-05 12:09 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/2c2a6d3a67ad/
Log: extend a bit on provided builds diff --git a/blog/draft/pypy-alpha-arm.rst b/blog/draft/pypy-alpha-arm.rst --- a/blog/draft/pypy-alpha-arm.rst +++ b/blog/draft/pypy-alpha-arm.rst @@ -10,15 +10,17 @@ This is the first release that supports a range of ARM devices - anything with ARMv6 (like the Raspberry Pi) or ARMv7 (like Beagleboard, Chromebook, -Cubieboard, etc) that supports VFPv3 should work. +Cubieboard, etc.) that supports VFPv3 should work. We provide builds with +support for both ARM EABI variants, hard-float and for some older operating +systems soft-float. This release comes with a list of limitations, consider it alpha quality, not suitable for production: -* stackless support does not work +* stackless support is missing. * assembler produced is not always correct, but we successfully managed to - run our extensive benchmark suite, so most stuff should work + run large parts of our extensive benchmark suite, so most stuff should work. You can download the PyPy 2.0 alpha ARM release here: @@ -34,8 +36,16 @@ PyPy is a very compliant Python interpreter, almost a drop-in replacement for CPython 2.7.3. It's fast due to its integrated tracing JIT compiler. -This release supports ARM machines running Linux 32bit. Both ``armel`` -and ``armhf`` builds are provided. +This release supports ARM machines running Linux 32bit. Both hard-float +``armhf`` and soft-float ``armel`` builds are provided. ``armhf`` builds are +created using the Raspberry Pi custom `cross-compilation toolchain`_ based on +gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf and should work on ARMv6 and ARMv7 devices running at +least debian or ubuntu. ``armel`` builds are built using gcc-arm-linux-gnuebi +toolchain provided by ubuntu and currently target ARMv7. If there is interest +in other builds, such as gnueabi for ARMv6 or without requiring a VFP let us +know in the comments or in IRC. + +.. _`cross-compilation custom toolchain`: https://github.com/raspberrypi Benchmarks ========== _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
