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

Re: Wanted: superstar hacker to complete Mono port to armhf

2013-09-12 Thread peter green
John Masseria wrote: Is this request still outstanding? Mono was dropped from debian wheezy armhf:(, it's still in raspbian wheezy and still buggy there. I was hoping to replace it with a working version when a working version hit sid but no working version has hit sid. There is apparently

Re: Wanted: superstar hacker to complete Mono port to armhf

2013-09-12 Thread John Masseria
On Wednesday, February 1, 2012 8:50:01 PM UTC-5, Jo Shields wrote: > Right now, Mono is available in Debian armhf. This is a hack - what > > we're actually doing is building Mono as an armhf binary, but built to > > emit soft VFP instructions and using calling conventions and ABI for > > armel.

Re: Wanted: superstar hacker to complete Mono port to armhf

2012-04-04 Thread Peter Robinson
Hey Jo/Hector, Did anything ever result from this? Peter On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Hector Oron wrote: > Hello Jo, > > I am forwarding the message to a couple mailing lists which might have > people interested on the Mono porting for ARM hard-float ABI. > > 2012/2/2 Jo Shields : >> Right

Re: Wanted: superstar hacker to complete Mono port to armhf

2012-02-02 Thread Alexander Graf
On 03.02.2012, at 00:11, Hector Oron wrote: > Hello Jo, > > I am forwarding the message to a couple mailing lists which might have > people interested on the Mono porting for ARM hard-float ABI. > > 2012/2/2 Jo Shields : >> Right now, Mono is available in Debian armhf. This is a hack - what >>

Re: [opensuse-arm] Re: Wanted: superstar hacker to complete Mono port to armhf

2012-02-02 Thread Jo Shields
On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 00:25 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: > On 03.02.2012, at 00:22, Jo Shields wrote: > > > On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 00:15 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: > >> On 03.02.2012, at 00:11, Hector Oron wrote: > >> > >>> Hello Jo, > >>> > >>> I am forwarding the message to a couple mailing l

Re: [opensuse-arm] Re: Wanted: superstar hacker to complete Mono port to armhf

2012-02-02 Thread Alexander Graf
On 03.02.2012, at 00:22, Jo Shields wrote: > On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 00:15 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: >> On 03.02.2012, at 00:11, Hector Oron wrote: >> >>> Hello Jo, >>> >>> I am forwarding the message to a couple mailing lists which might have >>> people interested on the Mono porting for ARM

Re: Wanted: superstar hacker to complete Mono port to armhf

2012-02-02 Thread Jo Shields
On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 00:15 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: > On 03.02.2012, at 00:11, Hector Oron wrote: > > > Hello Jo, > > > > I am forwarding the message to a couple mailing lists which might have > > people interested on the Mono porting for ARM hard-float ABI. > > > > 2012/2/2 Jo Shields : >

Re: Wanted: superstar hacker to complete Mono port to armhf

2012-02-02 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Jo, I am forwarding the message to a couple mailing lists which might have people interested on the Mono porting for ARM hard-float ABI. 2012/2/2 Jo Shields : > Right now, Mono is available in Debian armhf. This is a hack - what > we're actually doing is building Mono as an armhf binary, bu

Wanted: superstar hacker to complete Mono port to armhf

2012-02-01 Thread Jo Shields
Right now, Mono is available in Debian armhf. This is a hack - what we're actually doing is building Mono as an armhf binary, but built to emit soft VFP instructions and using calling conventions and ABI for armel. This hack works well enough for pure cross-platform code (like the C# compiler) to r