[Arm-netbook] RedSleeve - New ARM Linux Distro

Henrik Nordström henrik at henriknordstrom.net
Fri Apr 13 12:06:35 BST 2012


fre 2012-04-13 klockan 09:18 +0100 skrev Gordan Bobic:

> It is also not even clear that 12.04 is hard-float - both list kernels 
> as armv7l, rather than armv7hl. The test where I'd have expected to see 
> no difference (gzip compression isn't exactly very FP heavy) has one of 
> the biggest differences. So I'm not convinced how relevant the results 
> are to a relative performance assessment of SF vs. HF - at a glance it 
> seems more plausible the differences come from optimizations in the 
> packages themselves and possibly a better compiler toolchain.

You need to compare using a distribution with is available with same
software in both ABIs, such as Fedora or Debian.

Same kernel can be used for both.

Regards
Henrik




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