On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 06:00:13 +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 08:23:57PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > Package: release-notes > > Severity: important > > Tags: wheezy help > > > > The release notes for wheezy need to have some text about the new armhf > > arch. Some help with this from arm people would be welcome. > > Indeed. > > I've just commited text from http://www.debian.org/ports/ : > > =================================================================== > > <listitem> > <para> > - armhf, an alternative to armel for ARMv7 machines with hard-float > + armhf, an alternative to armel for ARMv7 machines with hard-float. > +A lot of modern ARM boards and devices ship with a floating-point unit (FPU), > +but the older Debian armel port doesn't take much advantage of it. The armhf > +port was started to improve this situation and also take advantage of other > +features of newer ARM CPUs. The Debian armhf port requires at least an ARMv7 > +CPU with Thumb-2 and VFP3D16 coprocessor. > </para> > </listitem> > </itemizedlist> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > It should get shown at > http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#idp154000 > soonish. You can checkout SVN from > svn.debian.org/svn/ddp/manuals/trunk/release-notes/en/whats-new.dbk > > ARM porters: Care to add some extra information? > I guess not... Closing, this can always be adjusted in followups. Cheers, Julien
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