On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Gordan Bobic <gordan(a)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