On 4 November 2012 05:09, Loïc Minier <loic.min...@linaro.org> wrote: > Hi Geert, > > On Fri, Nov 02, 2012, Geert Schuring wrote: >> Could you tell me if you have any plans to enable Ubuntu on the Raspberry Pi >> (ARMv6) ? > > Short answer: an Ubuntu ARMv6 port for the Raspberry Pi isn't a Linaro > target, but we're taking patches and we're interested in some bugs! :-) > > There are two main reasons for that: > - Linaro doesn't have the capacity to do large scale distro ports, this > is usually mainly the job of distros, and we're sometimes giving a > hand > - Linaro is all about the future of ARM, so the focus is mainly on ARMv7 > and ARMv8 at this point > > That said, there is hope! First, a bunch of Linaro folks have a > Raspberry Pi and play with it; second, I believe Ubuntu's armel port is > being re-targeted to ARMv5, so Ubuntu armel binaries should eventually > run on the Pi.
Yip. There's an unsupported cross compiler for Raspbian at: https://launchpad.net/linaro-toolchain-unsupported/+download > Linaro does directly care about toolchain regressions you might > encounter on ARMv5/ARMv6 (or even on x86), so please do report us any > toolchain regressions caused by Linaro patches. Yes please. While we're focused on the Cortex-A series, we don't want to harm earlier architectures. If you see any speed or correctness regressions please let us know. -- Michael _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
