+++ Steve Langasek [2011-02-17 12:03 -0800]: > Loïc's latest post drew my attention back to this thread, where I see I had > this message flagged for follow-up: > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 09:35:24AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > > I realize this is ideal, but: > > > > - there's been very strong upstream pushback on this, asserting that this > > > is the correct triplet to use for both arm calling conventions, so if > > > we > > > require a distinct triplet for armhf (instead of using the vendor > > > field), > > > that's going to block any armhf port for quite a while (possibly > > > indefinitely) > > > > - armhf was not the sole motivation for the proposal to define neutral > > > architecture names; x86 was already a problem because of the changing > > > triplets depending on which level of instruction set compatibility is > > > targeted. *Both* of these examples show that GNU triplets are not > > > defined in a way that they map directly to what we need for multiarch, > > > so > > > it's best to explicitly define our mapping externally. > > > > So even if you persuaded the upstream toolchain folks to specify a new > > > triplet for armhf after all, I think we should still go ahead with a > > > separate name mapping table for multiarch. > > > Note that uclibc also suffers this problems. x86_64-linux-uclibc is in > > no way unique as different uclibc compile options create different ABIs > > all with the same tripplet. > > We have a draft proposal for tuples to use in the filesystem paths for > multiarch: http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Tuples > > uclibc is included in the design, with a single identifier of 'uclibc'. We > probably need to have a better definition here. Where is the right place to > raise this point for discussion in Debian? Should I bring this up on the > debian-embedded list? Are there other stakeholders who would have input > regarding the array of available uclibc ABIs and how to specify these?
Debian-embedded contains people who know about uclibc stuff. (ron, Bernard Link, virtuoso, Simon richter) Comments anyone? Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110217225436.gu22...@dream.aleph1.co.uk
