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

[Peter Robinson]

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
> On 06/05/2011 02:10 AM, Chris Tyler 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.
>>
>> - The significant incompatibility is hardfp vs. softfp ABI (moreso than
>> v7 vs. v5).
>
> So would it not be more sensible to make the distro ARMv7 without NEON?

There's no mention of NEON above. Where do you get that idea from?

Peter