>
>
> The tricky-bit here is that instruction-set extensions (VFP3, thumb2,
> NEON) and instruction set versions (v4, v5, v6a, v7) can also be
> incompatible in the sense that they won't run on hardware without
> those features. But I really think we should try to deal with that by
> correctly deco
+++ Bill Gatliff [2010-07-10 21:05 -0500]:
>
> I would suggest to pick a generic, short name, with we could reuse
> later if it is proven that hardfloat has no sense in the next years.
> Comments?
I don't think you can re-use Debian arch names. They mean something
and if it's been use
>
>
> I would suggest to pick a generic, short name, with we could reuse
> later if it is proven that hardfloat has no sense in the next years.
> Comments?
>
I suggest just the opposite. :)
We should pick a name that is clear and concise, so that it doesn't collide
with another name we'd like to
Hello,
2010/7/10, Hector Oron :
> 2010/7/10, Martin Guy :
>> Sure. So my question was "what are the technical impacts of the string
>> chosen as an arch name?" -or- "What would make it 'wrong'"?
>
> AFAICS, there are no technical impacts. If someone knows it better,
> please expand.
Rethinking on
Hello,
2010/7/10, Martin Guy :
> Sure. So my question was "what are the technical impacts of the string
> chosen as an arch name?" -or- "What would make it 'wrong'"?
AFAICS, there are no technical impacts. If someone knows it better,
please expand.
> Sorry, I didn't mean that literal string, I m
On 7/10/10, Hector Oron wrote:
> 2010/7/10, Martin Guy :
> > What are the effects of the name choice?
> If we pick up the wrong name, then we would need to start over the
> bootstrapping again, and we would like to avoid that.
Sure. So my question was "what are the technical impacts of the strin
> This just makes it even more important that any hypothetical FPU-based
> Debian variant thinks very, very carefully about the ABI it uses. There
> is a standard EABI variant for passing parameters in FPU registers ---
> but is it sufficiently common to be useful in a cross-platform OS? Are
> ther
On 09/07/10 21:40, Paul Brook wrote:
[...]
> There are several variants of VFPv3. Some have the additional registers
> (typically the implementations that also have NEON), some do not. VFPv3 also
> introduces some new instructions, so even the variants with the restricted
> register file will no
Hello Martin,
2010/7/10, Martin Guy :
> What are the effects of the name choice?
If we pick up the wrong name, then we would need to start over the
bootstrapping again, and we would like to avoid that.
> Is it really just a matter of personal taste?
For the Debian architecture name, I believe t
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