Thanks Robert for the information. Regards, Ilyes Gouta. On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Robert Nelson <robertcnelson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Ilyes Gouta <ilyes.gouta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there any plan to provide Fedora packages built for the ARMv7 architecture? >> >> ARMv5TE looks a bit old but still ensures the compatibility with older >> ARM cores. However the ARMv7 instruction set improves a lot (compared >> to ARMv6) by adding support for the novel NEON instructions and >> updated VFP3, and I think that it really worth the shot. After all, >> it's all about setting up a new Qemu VM with a properly configured GCC >> compiler for the ARMv7 profile, right? >> >> Regards, >> Ilyes Gouta. >> > > Hi Ilyes, > > Couple things, considering the main people working on arm for fedora > are from Marvell and they are using Marvell boards to build the > archive, it'll probably be armv5te for awhile. I do have a Sheevaplug > (armv5te) and at 1.2Ghz it is faster then a 500Mhz Beagleboard > (cortex-a8)... > > gcc-4.3 isn't that great at march=armv7-a... Hopefully gcc-4.4 will be > the savor... > > QEMU: last i checked there is not a 'armv7-a' target option, so you > can't emulate that target. There is work in progress for an omap3 > based kernel outside the main qemu development. (it boots some > beagleboard kernels' but doesn't have support for anything other than > the dataflash memory, it really needs mmc or usbdisk emulation to be > useful for target building...) > > I did build some packages at 'armv7-a' using rpmbuild on the > beagleboard, but i ended up just breaking more things since i couldn't > get mock/koji to work properly to build clean builds. It's been put > back on hold as i'm trying to get the dsp to work for a customer. > > http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardFedora > > Regards, > > -- > Robert Nelson > http://www.rcn-ee.com/ > _______________________________________________ fedora-arm mailing list fedora-arm@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-arm
