Re: [fedora-arm] ARMv5 and atomic operations
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Andrew Haley <aph(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 04/23/2012 10:36 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
>> On 04/23/2012 02:16 AM, Brendan Conoboy wrote:
>>> As we get closer to having 100% package coverage in F17-ARM we're
>>> running into harder build failures due to the limitations of the chips
>>> we're building for. The problem I've noticed on many of the recent
>>> failures is due to the lack of atomic operations (These didn't arrive
>>> until ARMv6). How do we want to handle this? I see a few options:
>>>
>>> 1. Abandon armv5 and move to armv6 where some of the operations we need
>>> are available. This will still support the raspberry pi- what about
>>> kirkwood *plugs?
>>
>> Hold on, I thought that Raspberry Pi was a separate remix, and F17
>> was targeted at ARMv7?
>
> Oh? My understanding was that F17 was to have both armv5tel and armv7hl
> builds.
Oh, I see. Is any of this documented anywhere?
It depends on what sort of documentation you want. We're targeting
both armv7hl and armv5tel architectures.
And can someone tell me if there is a F17 root fs for Raspberry Pi
that
I can download?
Not yet but soon.
Peter