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

[Peter Robinson]

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?

Peter