[fedora-arm] arm software floating point support going forward

Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us
Tue Jan 29 22:13:33 UTC 2013


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El Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:26:19 -0600
Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> escribió:
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> El Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:22:23 -0600
> Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> escribió:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I wanted to kick off a discussion, I think that with the work that
> > Seneca is doing for armv6hl to support the Raspberry Pi most of the
> > need for building sfp has gone away. I would like us to drop support
> > for sfp in F19 that means that anyone running a kirkwood based
> > system would get supported software updates for approximately 13
> > months from now. with cubie boards and other devices coming around
> > that are cheap and more powerful and similar options I think there
> > is little benefit to continuing to support sfp.
> > 
> > Ive put in a request to get numbers of people using the arm and
> > armhfp portions of mirrormanager to get some idea of the number of
> > users out there, though i suspect most arm are raspberry pi and
> > people building in mock.
> 
> since there has been no major objection i will disable building
> armv5tel rpms in rawhide before the mass rebuild.

the next rawhide compose will be hfp only

Dennis
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