On Thursday 20 August 2015 14:46:15 Jonas Maebe wrote:

> > May I suggest to open a section in the Wiki where the necessary settings
> > for different known ARM hardware/software targets are listed, can be
> > approved by the experts and added to "compiler/README.txt" where it can
> > be kept in sync with the corresponding FPC version?
>
> That is virtually impossible. You can perfectly install a softfp
> toolchain and libraries on a Raspberry Pi if you want. Or a hardfloat
> distribution on a Pandaboard that originally came with a softfp Linux
> version. Even if you would only consider default installations, then I
> think there is still no one expert enough to know the details about
> every possible combination of ARM board and version of a particular
> Linux distribution.
>
I don't mean "every possible combination" but known working settings for usual 
hardware/software targets. Therefore the Wiki where platform supporter can 
publish there findings in a central place.
I accept that an up-to-date and maintained "compiler/README.txt" is a pipe 
dream.

Martin
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