On 01/08/2011 10:02 AM, Jon Masters wrote: > On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 09:54 +0000, Gordan Bobic wrote: > >> I would like to offer a counter-proposal - no package is accepted into >> Fedora (ARM?) until it stops generating misalignment warnings. That way >> there might actually be some effort toward getting things fixed rather >> than just glazing over the problem. From what I can see, relatively few >> things in the base distribution do actually trip the problem (one >> exception being DeviceKit-disks package that I mentioned earlier - will >> file a bugzilla on that later). > > This proposal sounds far more reasonable, and it has the added benefit > that other similar architectures in future won't have to worry about > alignment biting - and besides, while ARMv7 is pretty much safe, there's > a lot of older stuff out there (ARMv4 is now officially deprecated, but > that leaves several other architecture revisions in current use). Not to mention that the performance hit is an issue - anything that makes everything go slower for the sake of fixing bugs in a few problematic packages is a very bad idea. Gordan _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
