[fedora-arm] [Fwd: Activity Day June 10th - ARMv7 F15 hardfp bringup]

[Gordan Bobic]

On 06/05/2011 09:54 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Chris Tyler<chris at tylers.info>  wrote:
>> On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 20:53 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
>>> [0] We're making a "one time" incompatible ABI switch in F-15 bringup to
>>> the "hard float" ABI defined in section 6 of the ARM AAPCS (commonly
>>> referred to as the ARM EABI - but that doesn't actually exist as a
>>> name). The procedure call standard will be ARM AAPCS vfpv3-d16, as
>>> defined in section 6 of that document. Other distros are switching and
>>> this will form the basis of any LSB standardization effort later on.
>>> Think of v7 and v5 as being different arches, which they are really.
>>
>> And to further clarify:
>>
>> - This is an addition, not a switch -- the intention is to continue to
>> support armv5tel in addition to armv7hl at this time -- Tegra and
>> Marvell Kirkwood (including plug computer) devices which do not support
>> armv7hl will continue to work with armv5tel.
>
> Err Tegra should be supported due to the use of vfpv3-d16? Correct?

I think Chris wanted to see NEON as standard on armv7. I already voiced 
my disagreement to that in an earlier post. Since NEON packages can be 
used on any hardfp platform that supports NEON, I think NEON enabling 
should be handled on a package-by-package basis. It seems like a sounder 
trade-off for the sake of "rpmbuild --rebuild" with a different .rpmrc file.

Gordan