Re: ARM EABI port: minimum CPU choice

2006-07-23 Thread Riku Voipio
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 04:17:07PM +0200, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: > > > What is lost is the ability to compile a program in Thumb mode and > > > link it against the standard Debian libraries. I would think that > > > people who need space optimisation would do better to join the people > > > who b

Re: ARM EABI port: minimum CPU choice

2006-07-23 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 05:01:39PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > > What is lost is the ability to compile a program in Thumb mode and > > link it against the standard Debian libraries. I would think that > > people who need space optimisation would do better to join the people > > who build their ow

Re: ARM EABI port: minimum CPU choice

2006-07-23 Thread Riku Voipio
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 12:23:13PM +0200, Martin Guy wrote: > What is lost is the ability to compile a program in Thumb mode and > link it against the standard Debian libraries. I would think that > people who need space optimisation would do better to join the people > who build their own reposito

Re: ARM EABI port: minimum CPU choice

2006-07-23 Thread Paul Brook
> Does anyone really win by having us bulk out and slow down the whole > distro a ilttle with thumb capability so as to be able to compile just > one or two programs in thumb mode? I think Thumb mode is important. Especially now that there is Thumb-2 and CPUs that only support Thumb mode[1]. The

Re: ARM EABI port: minimum CPU choice

2006-07-23 Thread Martin Guy
Hi again I've been looking at the options we were talking about to make the ARM Debian EABI port work on armv4 as well as armv4t and above and it seems to me that there is a simpler solution. Rather than have me mangle gcc to support new function exit sequences, with all the possibility of intr