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Re: Please test debian-installer rc1 images



* Rainer Dorsch <rdorsch@web.de> [2008-11-07 21:47]:
> > If you have a spare ARM machine or want to reinstall your machine for
> > some reason (for example to move from arm to armel)
> 
> Will lenny contain only armel or will there also be the old arm architecture?

Yes, leny will support both arm and armel, and support for arm will be
dropped after lenny.

> Are there advantages of armel over arm on an nslu2?

ARM EABI (armel in Debian) has better floating point performance and
is generally the way to go on ARM since everyone is moving to it.  See
http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiPort for some background.

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/


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