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



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 <directhex@apebox.org>:
> >> 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 run, but dies in a heap for anything complex.
> >> 
> >> This situation is a bit on the crappy side of crap.
> >> 
> >> In order for Mono on armhf not to be a waste of time, a "true" port
> >> needs to be completed. If I were to make a not-remotely-educated guess,
> >> I'd say it needs about 550 lines of changes, primarily the addition of
> >> code to emit the correct instructions feeling the correct registers in
> >> mono/mini/mini-arm.c plus a couple of tweaks to related headers.
> >> 
> >> Upstream have also indicated that they're happy to provide guidance and
> >> pointers on how to implement this port, although they're unable to
> >> provide the requisite code themselves.
> >> 
> >> Sadly, unless someone in the community is able to step forward and
> >> contribute here, it's only a matter of time before the armhf packages
> >> are rightfully marked RC-buggy, and 100+ packages need to be axed from
> >> armhf. This would make me sad.
> 
> Please check our mono arm patches in OBS:
> 
>   https://build.opensuse.org/package/files?package=mono-core&project=openSUSE%3AFactory%3AARM
> 
> While slightly hacky, they enable full armhf support for arm. At least for us it's worked pretty well. Mono is a rather core dependency of a lot of stuff.

Are these really giving you everything you need for openSUSE w/
hardfloat? They don't really seem very different from what we're doing
in Debian, i.e. using the existing VFP softfloat code

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