On 02/14/2011 03:35 AM, Somebody in the thread at some point said:
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Christian Robottom Reiskiko@linaro.org wrote:
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 09:50:10AM +0000, Andy Green wrote:
Offlist so as not to make myself unpopular ^^
You might want to look at Fedora ARM, it target armv5te.
Well, point taken though -- is anyboy talking to Fedora to see if they'd be interested in taking some of our components as their ARM upstreams?
There's some interesting discussion on the list archives, like 'should we switch to ARMv7+hardfp and drop armv5te', and 'Hey, our QEMU uses versatile which is old and broken, what should we do'.
I think the consensus of that was that Fedora ARM need to stick with v5 (I was certainly arguing that anyway) but are curious about if they get any general advantage with v7; in any event they see they need to support neon. So I think sooner or later they benefit from Linaro's "living in the future" work one way or another.
Hopefully a similar setup to "mainly i386 with handpicked i686 exceptions" that Fedora used on 32-bit x86 will be enough to unify the two worlds, because weak ARM9 v5 and ARM11(36) are a genuine market sector that probably won't go away for a long while.
-Andy