Jon Masters wrote: > 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. I thought the v7 switch was going to coincide with the hardfp switch. If that's the case, it'll have to be a complete distro rebuild. I thought the consensus was that ARMv7 switch without a hardfp switch at the same time was generally deemed to not be worth the effort. Is that not the case? Gordan _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
