Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-arm (88 mails)

[Andreas Färber <afaerber@xxxxxxx>]

Am 25.10.2011 13:43, schrieb Adrian Schröter:
> Am Sonntag, 23. Oktober 2011, 13:09:18 schrieb Bernhard Schuster:
> > 2011/10/23 Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx>:
> > > Please don't get confused that our packages armv7l, they use hardware
> > > floating point as all armv7 cpus are providing it.
> >
> > I don't think this is not a good idea, as proprietary drivers support
> > armv7l but _not_ armv7*h*l, this could potentially confuse beginners.
>
> There is no hardware architecture called armv7hl (at least the linux kernel 
> does not know it).

> armv7 always supports hfp and our packages are compiled 
> using this ABI.

I don't know about the kernel but the ARMv7 TRM clearly says VFPv3 is an
optional extension to ARMv7-A and ARMv7-R. The Cortex-R4 MCU doesn't
have it, for instance. Not that we need to care for openSUSE, of course.

Andreas

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