Re: ARM Ports BoF: armel in buster
On 08/28/2017 07:57 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> As someone who can no longer run Debian stable on his MIPS device due
>> to the CPU requirements bump in stretch, I'm not sure that bumping
>> CPU
>> requirements is a good idea in general. If there are actual benefits
>> to v5 as the default then bumping it could be a good idea.
>
> IIRC some important part of the toolchain (gcc?) has bumped their
> baseline to v5 quite a while back, so we are already living on borrowed
> time wrt toolchain support. (This was from an ARM BoF several debconf's
> ago, I can't seem to find a reference right now though).
I don't think that's the case. Even gcc-8 still builds perfectly fine and
so does LLVM. There had been issues with std::future on armel for a long
time due to the lack of atomics in hardware on ARM prior to v7 but this
issue has been resolved in a different way upstream now.
Adrian
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