Re: ARMv4-support in armel/squeeze?

2010-12-30 Thread Paul Brook
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Paul Brook wrote: > >> you have to bear in mind that "future porting" *used* to be very > >> uncommon an occurrence (as if doing it 14 times is "uncommon") > >> > >> but with the massive explosion in compiler options for ARM processors > >> alone, the process

Re: ARMv4-support in armel/squeeze?

2010-12-30 Thread Martin Guy
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Martin Guy wrote: > mkdir ~/crunch > cat > ~/crunch/gcc << EOF > #! /bin/sh > > exec gcc-4.3-crunch -march=armv101thx "$@" > EOF > chmod 755 ~/crunch/gcc > ln -s gcc ~/crunch/cc > ln -s gcc ~/crunch/gcc-4.3 > ln -s gcc ~/crunch/arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc Sorry, didn't

Re: ARMv4-support in armel/squeeze?

2010-12-30 Thread Martin Guy
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> "Neil"? I spent 2006 working to bootstrap the armel port, of which the >> first 6 months were getting a working EABI cross-compiler (partly >> because the emdebian crowd, who seemed to know more about it, urged me >> to; in re

Re: ARMv4-support in armel/squeeze?

2010-12-30 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Paul Brook wrote: >>  you have to bear in mind that "future porting" *used* to be very >> uncommon an occurrence (as if doing it 14 times is "uncommon") >> >>  but with the massive explosion in compiler options for ARM processors >> alone, the process of "porting"

Re: ARMv4-support in armel/squeeze?

2010-12-30 Thread Paul Brook
> you have to bear in mind that "future porting" *used* to be very > uncommon an occurrence (as if doing it 14 times is "uncommon") > > but with the massive explosion in compiler options for ARM processors > alone, the process of "porting" now becomes a massive headache. Really? AFAIK the only

Re: ARMv4-support in armel/squeeze?

2010-12-30 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Martin Guy wrote: > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Wookey wrote: >> Does the >> popularity-contest info record any CPU details? It would be helpful >> for having some idea of the mix currently in use. > > It doesn't.  I suggested this to its maintainer a few mon

Re: ARMv4-support in armel/squeeze?

2010-12-30 Thread Martin Guy
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Wookey wrote: > Does the > popularity-contest info record any CPU details? It would be helpful > for having some idea of the mix currently in use. It doesn't. I suggested this to its maintainer a few months ago, and they agreed that it would be useful. On Sun, D