Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-09 Thread Martin Guy
On 7/9/10, Hector Oron wrote: > > I prefer 'armhf', FWIW. > Somebody against 'armhf'? Have we got it? > > And for the triplet, is it OK to use vendor tag as explained in the > wiki page[1]? > arm-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi > or > armhf-linux-gnueabi What are the effects of the name choice?

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-09 Thread Paul Brook
> > I would be a bit scared that this has a chance of getting out of date, > > or be confusing because other ports might be v7 as well, or also > > because this only reflects a subset of the ports' requirement (VFP > > level for instance isn't reflected, such as vfpv2, vfpv3). > > ARMv7 (w

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-09 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 11:11:01AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 02:58:58PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 10:55:25PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 06, 2010, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > Could the targeted CPU be used in the name? Ie, armelv

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-09 Thread Loïc Minier
On Fri, Jul 09, 2010, Hector Oron wrote: > Somebody against 'armhf'? Have we got it? > arm-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi Sounds good > armhf-linux-gnueabi Oh no, not the CPU field; it really can only go in vendor -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-09 Thread Hector Oron
Hello again, 2010/7/9, Clint Adams : > I prefer 'armhf', FWIW. Somebody against 'armhf'? Have we got it? And for the triplet, is it OK to use vendor tag as explained in the wiki page[1]? arm-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi or armhf-linux-gnueabi Please, remember, that this effort is not official t

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 02:58:58PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 10:55:25PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 06, 2010, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Could the targeted CPU be used in the name? Ie, armelv7. > Or even just armv7. It is just a name, so it should be short and >

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-09 Thread David Given
On 2010-07-06 21:55, Loïc Minier wrote: [...] I would be a bit scared that this has a chance of getting out of date, or be confusing because other ports might be v7 as well, or also because this only reflects a subset of the ports' requirement (VFP level for instance isn't reflected, such

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-09 Thread Clint Adams
On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 07:27:23PM +0200, Hector Oron wrote: > Have we got a Debian architecture name yet? 'armelhf' is most reasonable one? I prefer 'armhf', FWIW. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-09 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2010/7/9, Loïc Minier : > Please, let's not use the last field; there is not only the default > target of the toolchain, there is also the toolchain itself. An > arm-linux-gnueabi toolchain can target both soft and hard float calling > conventions, so a single triplet. It would be per

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-09 Thread Loïc Minier
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010, Wookey wrote: > The first thing I've found is that whilst we can build for > --mfloat-abi=hard there is no macro set by GCC to detect this state. For the record: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/+bug/602745 > manufacturer/vendor doesn't really supply useful informatio

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-09 Thread Wookey
+++ Konstantinos Margaritis [2010-07-08 15:38 +0300]: > Even now, libc arch specific optimizations -like libc6-i686 > that you mentioned- are undocumented, very few packages actually provide > support for them, and in short, software ends up totally unoptimized for no > good reason. That's too

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-09 Thread Loïc Minier
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010, Guillem Jover wrote: > The > lpia is a great example of an architecture variant that was a mistake, > and should haver never been created. This is a bit oversimplified; when lpia was created, there were pro

Re: armelfp: new architecture name for an armel variant

2010-07-09 Thread Wookey
+++ Hector Oron [2010-07-09 01:54 +0200]: > Hello, > > 2010/7/8, Wookey : > .. > > armarm-linux-gnu > .. > > I guess that's (more than) enough for now. Thoughts welcome. > > Would be sane to use old deprecated OABI name? > armarm-linux-gnu One day, that might be nice, bu

Re: Debian Kernel for Kirkwood: OpenRD_client

2010-07-09 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* kalyan karnati [2010-07-08 13:52]: > Can some one please help me in finding the Debian Kernel source for > Kirkwood openRD ? > I want to compile some modules that are specific to my requirement. See ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-2.6 http://wiki.debian.org/HowToRebuildAnOfficia