On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:53:47AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >Hi, Hi Jonathan,
I was expecting you to ask, based on the wiki changes. :-) >Based on the "Questions regarding armhf port for Raspberry Pi" thread, >I think some people believe that ARMv6+VFP binaries using the hard >float ABI should be binary compatible with Debian armhf (and in >particular it should be possible to swap in packages built that way >one at a time and still have a working Debian system on an ARMv7+ >machine). > >Is that assumption wrong? It comes up in the definition of the armhf >triplet at <http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Tuples>. Please forgive >my ignorance. They'll be upwardly-compatible (i.e. they'll work on v7), but not in reverse. armhf is explicitly defined to be ARMv7+, using VFPv3-D16 (no Neon). That's standardised across distros too. There's a chance that some of the armhf binaries might run on v6, but if so it's only by chance and not guaranteed. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "When C++ is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb." -- Steven M. Haflich -- 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/20120417160141.gd19...@einval.com
