On 09/13/2012 01:24 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 03:39:20PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Jon Masters wrote:
I propose the following triplet for Fedora on AArch64:
aarch64-redhat-linux-gnu
Skipping the vendor part, that means generally:
aarch64-linux-gnu
There should be no reason to deviate from this. I'm putting it out there now because I don't want another ARMv7 experience later :)
unless you're doing big endian then it's: aarch64_be-linux-gnu
In discussions with various folks, it seems that none of the distros are particularly interested in BE. \o/
i was just more nettling Jon ;)
Always fun. Note that just because we agree on the triplet, doesn't mean that we've yet had the fun of discussing the linker path until we pass out form sheer exhaustion. So, let's have that one out before some of us go doing our own thing. From my point of view, we don't care /at all/ about multi-arch and certainly I have no plans of even supporting a 32-bit ARM userspace on AArch64 (if you want that, use virtualization). Sure, the latter is aspirational and someone will ruin it, so maybe we need to go to /lib64 rather than /lib (I don't want to). But just because I don't like multi-arch doesn't mean we shouldn't know if Debian/Ubuntu are going to do a different linker path again? :)
In other words, I can live with whatever, but let's do it one way the first time, rather than repeating what happened with ARMv7. So, what are Debian and Ubuntu going to do for multi-archification of AArch64?
if hardware ever materializes, then it'd be easy to do Gentoo. but if there's a lack of hardware, we certainly won't waste time on theoretical stuff.
That's cool. I'll not comment on hardware except to say I don't think it will be theoretical for all that long, if it even is now.
Jon.