On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 04:41:56PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: >> >> =================================================================== >> >> <listitem> >> <para> >> - armhf, an alternative to armel for ARMv7 machines with hard-float >> + armhf, an alternative to armel for ARMv7 machines with hard-float. >> +A lot of modern ARM boards and devices ship with a floating-point unit >> (FPU), >> +but the older Debian armel port doesn't take much advantage of it. The armhf >> +port was started to improve this situation and also take advantage of other >> +features of newer ARM CPUs. The Debian armhf port requires at least an ARMv7 >> +CPU with Thumb-2 and VFP3D16 coprocessor. >> </para> >> </listitem> >> </itemizedlist> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> It should get shown at >> http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#idp154000 >> soonish. You can checkout SVN from >> svn.debian.org/svn/ddp/manuals/trunk/release-notes/en/whats-new.dbk >> >> ARM porters: Care to add some extra information? >> >I guess not... Closing, this can always be adjusted in followups.
That's a good description of armhf, tbh... :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cable, one on the far end, and the goat, terminated over the SCSI chain with a silver-handled knife whilst burning *black* candles. --- Anthony DeBoer -- 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/20130502011903.ga28...@einval.com
