Re: Bug#683425: release-notes: new in wheezy: armhf
On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 04:41:56PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
>>
>> ===================================================================
>>
>> <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.
That's a good description of armhf, tbh... :-)
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