[Arm-netbook] RedSleeve - New ARM Linux Distro

Gordan Bobic gordan at bobich.net
Fri Apr 13 12:33:41 BST 2012


Henrik Nordström wrote:
> fre 2012-04-13 klockan 12:17 +0200 skrev Vladimir Pantelic:
> 
>> unless the "soft" ones are using armv5 and an old compiler and the
>> "hard" ones armv7 and a newer/better compiler
> 
> soft-float applications are generally built for armv5tel. The only
> meaningful comparison I have is that armv7hl is much faster in all
> respects than armv5tel, on same hardware & kernel, using same compiler
> flags except for selection of target CPU generation, ABI and floating
> point implementation.
> 
> It's kind of pointless to build armv7 soft-float imho. The only reason
> is to co-exists with armv5tel which I have no meaningful interest in.

I'm inclined to agree. You could build glibc and a few other things for 
armv7l instead of armv5tel, like on x86 where you get both i386 and i686 
glibc, but the gain isn't all that worthwhile on ARM.

Gordan



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