Re: Raspbian checks and question for Jessie
Hi,
peter green wrote:
> As i've said before my understanding is that debian architecture
> names represent a CPU family and ABI. Minium CPU requirements have
> been changed both by derivatives (e.g. ubuntu i386 went first to
> requiring "586" and then "686") and within debian (e.g. debian i386
> went to requiring 486)
>
> Much as I do wish debian would improve support for variants with
> adjusted minium CPU requirements (and I intend to make a suggestion
> to the gcc maintainers about that, I just haven't got arround it it
> yet) I don't think a new architecture name is the way to go.
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Well given arm6 binaries will install and work perfectly on official
> armhf systems, making it a new architecture seems like a bad idea.
>
> That would be like saying i486 optimized packages should be a different
> architecture than i686 optimized packages. There isn't really a good
> reason to do that.
So what would be the consequences of redefining armhf's minimum
hardware requirements, i.e. would there a noticable performance loss
on more modern systems if armhf would be built to include armv6 in the
future?
Regards, Axel (currently thinking about buying an Olinuxino)
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