Bug#683425: release-notes: new in wheezy: armhf
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>
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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?
Thanks, Bye,
Joost
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