+++ David Given [2012-03-07 11:13 +0000]: > Mike Thompson wrote: > > I am potentially interested in creating/maintaining a Debian port that > > would mirror the work being done in armhf, but with the port tuned to > > the specifics of the Raspberry Pi hardware which I believe is > > ARMv6+VFPv2. > > Does Debian armhf still target ARMv7 and above? I can't find any > definitive statement. I know that Ubuntu *does* target ARMv7+, which > means that it won't work on the Pi (and Canonical have stated that they > have no interest in supporting the Pi), but I thought Debian's > requirements were different.
This presentation has a useful summary of which optimisations and ABIs various distros have chosen for their ARM support: http://wookware.org/talks/fosdem2012forARM.pdf (pages 7 and 8) To save you all downloading 1.5Mb for <1K of text: Ubuntu: * “armel” (v7, Thumb 2, EABI soft-float) still going, will ship in Precise (12.04), maybe with LTS? * “armhf” (v7, Thumb 2, EABI hard-float) mostly there, minor issues remaining will ship in Precise unless major problem Debian: * “armel” (v4t, EABI soft-float) still going, will ship in Wheezy (7.0) * “armhf” (v7, Thumb 2, EABI hard-float) mostly there, minor issues remaining will ship in Wheezy unless major problems happen OpenSUSE: * “armv7hl” (v7, Thumb 2, EABI hard-float) over 80% of the OpenSUSE archive built aiming for inclusion in 12.2, freeze by beginning of June aiming to be ready for SLED/SLES inclusion * “armv5” (v5, EABI soft-float) Secondary port, lower priority Left for community effort Fedora: * “armv7hl” (v7, Thumb 2, EABI hard-float) much of F15 built aiming for inclusion as primary arch in F17, alpha build available big push by F18, ready for RHEL 7 * “armv5tel” (v5, EABI soft-float) much of F15 built aiming for inclusion in F17, alpha build available base for Fedora respin for Raspberry Pi Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120307114613.gk26...@dream.aleph1.co.uk
