On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Neil Williams <codeh...@debian.org> wrote: > *Precisely* what changes do you need for that "architecture" - is it > really a different architecture from armel? (Answers to debian-embedded > please.)
hi neil, firstly thank you for the informative post, esp. the history about actually _doing_ an architecture port and it taking over a year to complete - even with your expertise and knowledge - that puts things into perspective (that this _isn't_ like e.g. gentoo, openembedded or linuxfromscratch) the OP, jonathon wilson (cc'd) wanted to recompile to take advantage of ARM926EJ-S features and also OMAP3530 features (cortex A8); i want to recompile to take advantage of S5PC100 (cortex A8) features. [apparently there's quite a significant speed improvement to be had because the cortex A8 architecture was actually done by a different company as a from-ground-up reimplementation of ARM instruction set, that ARM then bought up when the investor pulled out] based on what you've said, would you advise jonathon that it be better to target the "worst offender" packages and where the most bang-per-buck can be had, for example recompiling the linux kernel to take advantage of processor-specific optimisations i can think of as being the most obvious one. l. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ced5f0f61003110346t1a7938d5v510ed4d5645f4...@mail.gmail.com
