subarchitectures? (was: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore)
* Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org) [030625 12:35]:
> The problem is that we really don't have sensible support for
> subarchitectures at all. This makes the job of creating such a
> specialized port much greater than just "I have some hardware and need
> to make a small tweak to support it"; you need to patch dpkg and make
> substantial changes in the archive organization to share packages
> between architectures,
What does oppose us to make subarchitectures quite more easy than now?
(That would also be useful for the AMD Opteron and the like that could
use normal i386-code, but can profit from optimized code.)
Of course, that doesn't resolve the actual bug right now, but ...
> all this mess and say "well, why don't you just leave everything as it
> is and let us make this small kernel change, until we can standardize on
> gcc-3.3 with a fixed ABI"?
... this is the right thing to do that.
Cheers,
Andi
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