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Bug#683425: marked as done (release-notes: new in wheezy: armhf)

Your message dated Wed, 1 May 2013 16:41:56 +0200
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has caused the Debian Bug report #683425,
regarding release-notes: new in wheezy: armhf
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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.

Cheers,
Julien

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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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