On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 10:45 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > Gordan Bobic <gordan@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Jon Masters wrote: > >> On Sat, 2011-03-26 at 21:10 +0000, Matthew Wilson wrote: > >> > >>> 2. Armv7 / VFP / NEON support to squeeze a bit more performance out > >>> (where appropriate to the h/w). > >> > >> FWIW, I think (eventually), moving to an ARMv7 base has a lot of > >> benefit, with not a (lot) of drawback. After all, Fedora ARM is new > >> enough that there isn't a lot of legacy out there (there will always be > >> old ARM boards people want to use, certainly), and all of the boards now > >> being produced are based on Cortex (or similar) designs with v7. There > >> are one or two notable exceptions, but it's obvious where things are > >> headed. It's really just a question of /when/ to switch IMHO. > > > > I think you are overestimating the proliveration of ARMv7. There are a > > lot of capable ARMv5 devices out there, such as the SheevaPlug/GuruPlug. > > > > Is the plan to offer both v5 and v7 builds (same way as there is an x86 > > and x86-64 build)? Or v7 only? > > Please do not alienate us SheevaPlug/GuruPlug users. :) For the time being, it's probably sufficient to do an optimized version of things like glibc (akin to how there used to be i686 packages for it when other bits were i386). Notice I said "when", not that this should happen today or tomorrow. But it's worth considering, which is of course another reason why having data on users really helps. I haven't checked the smolt situation yet, but that could also be another source of data in due course. Jon. _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
