[fedora-arm] ARMv7 rootfs/repository?

Chris Tyler chris at tylers.info
Wed Dec 22 16:15:25 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 08:01 -0800, Andrew Burgess wrote:
> On 12/22/2010 06:30:13 AM, Chris Tyler wrote:
> 
> > There is an expected performance gain with the switch to hardfp, but
> > that's a big challenge: you can't mix softfp and hardfp, so switching  
> > to
> > hardfp is like bootstrapping an entirely new architecture.
> 
> Since fedora has no problem mixing 32 and 64 bit executables it
> seems like there's alot of infrastructure already done for this.
> Just saying...

It's not a Fedora infrastructure issue, the ABIs are incompatible. I
wish you could mix'n'match but that doesn't look possible.

-Chris



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