anyone still here?
Ryan Underwood wrote:
> This port has been dead for a while. I'm curious if any of the issues
> regarding SH3/SH4 binary compatibility (FPU emulation, delay slot) have
> had solutions proposed or issued since activity last was going on.
>
> It seems that we can build binaries that work on both SH3 and SH4
> by reducing the performance on SH4 slightly and requiring SH3 to emulate
> a FPU by the kernel. Right? What else is holding things back? The
> existing problems of SH3<->SH4 do not seem to be insurmountable, and it
> seems we can ignore big endian because nobody who has such a machine has
> ever spoken up.
I think that it's not true.
The things I know is that Debian ignored two important things:
(1) Existing difference of ABI between SH3 and SH4
(2) Existing bigendian hardwares
And someone insisted (wrongly) it could be merged, or ignored.
Well, (2) could be ignored, if we count the demands. But (1) is not.
I think that such a attitude of Debian is contradiction to the Social
Contract, which priority is users' benefit. The industry distingushs
the ABI difference of SH3 and SH4. I don't know the reason why Debian
resuses to understand.
I think that that's the part of the reason why this porting activity
is dead. I'm sure that if Debian treats the ABI difference rightly,
it goes well.
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