On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Gordan Bobic <gordan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/05/2011 02:10 AM, Chris Tyler wrote: >> On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 20:53 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: >>> [0] We're making a "one time" incompatible ABI switch in F-15 bringup to >>> the "hard float" ABI defined in section 6 of the ARM AAPCS (commonly >>> referred to as the ARM EABI - but that doesn't actually exist as a >>> name). The procedure call standard will be ARM AAPCS vfpv3-d16, as >>> defined in section 6 of that document. Other distros are switching and >>> this will form the basis of any LSB standardization effort later on. >>> Think of v7 and v5 as being different arches, which they are really. >> >> And to further clarify: >> >> - This is an addition, not a switch -- the intention is to continue to >> support armv5tel in addition to armv7hl at this time -- Tegra and >> Marvell Kirkwood (including plug computer) devices which do not support >> armv7hl will continue to work with armv5tel. >> >> - The significant incompatibility is hardfp vs. softfp ABI (moreso than >> v7 vs. v5). > > So would it not be more sensible to make the distro ARMv7 without NEON? There's no mention of NEON above. Where do you get that idea from? Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
