Re: [pkg-mono-group] Wanted: superstar hacker to complete Mono port to armhf

2013-09-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 3:11 PM, John Masseria wrote: > But does this mean that armhf will move from ARMv7 to ARMv8? armhf will remain as-is and we will also add an arm64 port: https://wiki.debian.org/Arm64Port http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/architecture.php?a=arm64&suite=sid > Or is ARM

Re: [pkg-mono-group] Wanted: superstar hacker to complete Mono port to armhf

2013-09-13 Thread John Masseria
Great news! But does this mean that armhf will move from ARMv7 to ARMv8? Or is ARMv7 upward compatible with ARMv8, meaning an ARMv8 processor can natively run ARMv7 compiled binaries? Apologies for asking newbie questions ... On Sep 12, 2013 1:12 PM, "Jo Shields" wrote: > It took a while, but

Re: [pkg-mono-group] Wanted: superstar hacker to complete Mono port to armhf

2013-09-12 Thread Jo Shields
It took a while, but I conned an upstream developer without any ties to the last effort into doing it, and it's happening on Xamarin company time as part of a general effort to improve ARM support. With the recent iPhone 5S announcement it's become business critical for them (due to the ARMv8 AB