[fedora-arm] Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix 17 update

[Dennis Gilmore]

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On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:53:48 +0200
"valent.turkovic at gmail.com" <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Chris Tyler <chris at tylers.info> wrote:
> > A long-overdue update on the Raspi remix...
> 
> Will Fedora Raspberry Pi have armhf "hard float" optimizations ?
> From what I can see [1] RPi distribution that support these
> optimizations have much better floating point performance.
no it will be sfp only 

we build our armhfp rpms for armv7  which means they wont run on the
raspberry pi as it is armv6 while armv6 has a floating point unit it is
also not compatable. armv6 has a v2 vfp and armv7 has a v3 vfp.  to
build a compatable hfp distro we would need to recompile everything and
have a 3rd set of base arches,  its really not a very practical option.

other than the pi the only other devices that are v6 are phones and the
via APC. while i expect there will be quite a few pis out there  its
not likely to be a long term sustainable port.

Dennis
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