On 26.03.2013, at 20:26, lists@lazygranch.com wrote:
It is often said there are no dumb questions, so let me test that theory.
How different are all these Arm7 opensuse distributions?
They're not different at all from a "distribution" point of view. All packages are the same basically, except maybe the kernel.
I'm a bit lost why a Beableboard differs from a Panda.
Because we're creating ready-to-go SD card images. Beagle and Panda have different firmware (u-boot) that comes on the SD card. Because u-boot can only support one target at a time, we have separate images. As soon as the kernel is booted, they are essentially identical though. In fact, beagle and panda even share the same kernel.
Now I get that some arm cpus lack hardware floating point, so I can see hardware FP and software FP being a dividing line.
That's what the whole armv5 vs armv7 split is about armv5 == soft float armv7 == hard float With those, packages on your installed system will differ. For image flavors of armv7 however, packages will be identical. Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org