Hey Jo/Hector, Did anything ever result from this?
Peter On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Hector Oron <hector.o...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Jo, > > I am forwarding the message to a couple mailing lists which might have > people interested on the Mono porting for ARM hard-float ABI. > > 2012/2/2 Jo Shields <direct...@apebox.org>: >> Right now, Mono is available in Debian armhf. This is a hack - what >> we're actually doing is building Mono as an armhf binary, but built to >> emit soft VFP instructions and using calling conventions and ABI for >> armel. This hack works well enough for pure cross-platform code (like >> the C# compiler) to run, but dies in a heap for anything complex. >> >> This situation is a bit on the crappy side of crap. >> >> In order for Mono on armhf not to be a waste of time, a "true" port >> needs to be completed. If I were to make a not-remotely-educated guess, >> I'd say it needs about 550 lines of changes, primarily the addition of >> code to emit the correct instructions feeling the correct registers in >> mono/mini/mini-arm.c plus a couple of tweaks to related headers. >> >> Upstream have also indicated that they're happy to provide guidance and >> pointers on how to implement this port, although they're unable to >> provide the requisite code themselves. >> >> Sadly, unless someone in the community is able to step forward and >> contribute here, it's only a matter of time before the armhf packages >> are rightfully marked RC-buggy, and 100+ packages need to be axed from >> armhf. This would make me sad. > > > > -- > Héctor Orón -.. . -... .. .- -. -.. . ...- . .-.. --- .--. . .-. > > _______________________________________________ > cross-distro mailing list > cross-dis...@lists.linaro.org > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-distro -- 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/calede9mt0aigb-61h65j6inem7aaj4zcz95fki3xvk0vgus...@mail.gmail.com
