[fedora-arm] Fedora packages for the ARMv7 instruction set

[Ilyes Gouta]

Thanks Robert for the information.

Regards,
Ilyes Gouta.

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Robert Nelson <robertcnelson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Ilyes Gouta <ilyes.gouta at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there any plan to provide Fedora packages built for the ARMv7 architecture?
>>
>> ARMv5TE looks a bit old but still ensures the compatibility with older
>> ARM cores. However the ARMv7 instruction set improves a lot (compared
>> to ARMv6) by adding support for the novel NEON instructions and
>> updated VFP3, and I think that it really worth the shot. After all,
>> it's all about setting up a new Qemu VM with a properly configured GCC
>> compiler for the ARMv7 profile, right?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ilyes Gouta.
>>
>
> Hi Ilyes,
>
> Couple things, considering the main people working on arm for fedora
> are from Marvell and they are using Marvell boards to build the
> archive, it'll probably be armv5te for awhile.  I do have a Sheevaplug
> (armv5te) and at 1.2Ghz it is faster then a 500Mhz Beagleboard
> (cortex-a8)...
>
> gcc-4.3 isn't that great at march=armv7-a... Hopefully gcc-4.4 will be
> the savor...
>
> QEMU: last i checked there is not a 'armv7-a' target option, so you
> can't emulate that target.  There is work in progress for an omap3
> based kernel outside the main qemu development.  (it boots some
> beagleboard kernels' but doesn't have support for anything other than
> the dataflash memory, it really needs mmc or usbdisk emulation to be
> useful for target building...)
>
> I did build some packages at 'armv7-a' using rpmbuild on the
> beagleboard, but i ended up just breaking more things since i couldn't
> get mock/koji to work properly to build clean builds.  It's been put
> back on hold as i'm trying to get the dsp to work for a customer.
>
> http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardFedora
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Robert Nelson
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>