Re: arm software floating point support going forward

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Quentin Armitage píše v Čt 31. 01. 2013 v 15:21 +0000: 
> On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 22:26 -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> 
> > El Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:22:23 -0600
> > Dennis Gilmore <dennis@xxxxxxxx> escribió:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I wanted to kick off a discussion, I think that with the work that
> > > Seneca is doing for armv6hl to support the Raspberry Pi most of the
> > > need for building sfp has gone away. I would like us to drop support
> > > for sfp in F19 that means that anyone running a kirkwood based system
> > > would get supported software updates for approximately 13 months from
> > > now. with cubie boards and other devices coming around that are cheap
> > > and more powerful and similar options I think there is little benefit
> > > to continuing to support sfp.
> > > 
> > > Ive put in a request to get numbers of people using the arm and armhfp
> > > portions of mirrormanager to get some idea of the number of users out
> > > there, though i suspect most arm are raspberry pi and people building
> > > in mock.
> > 
> > since there has been no major objection i will disable building
> > armv5tel rpms in rawhide before the mass rebuild.
> > 
> > Dennis
> 
> I guess it's too late now, but I got a few days behind on my list
> emails. I use 2 * Sheevaplugs and 2 * Dreamplugs with Fedora, and would
> be very disappointed to see support for them being dropped from Fedora.
> For me, I still see quite a lifetime in them for what they are doing.

Fedora provides all tools to run armv5tel as say tertiary architecture,
just needs a volunteer with some hardware.


Dan


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