[Arm-netbook] [review] SoC proposal

[lkcl luke]

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
> Bari Ari wrote:
>
>> You might be surprised by how quickly GCC support can come together for
>> a new cpu core that is also driven by a cooperative open software
>> community without any hidden agendas, control issues or confused management.
>
> Sure, but these things take time to stabilize. ARMv7 hard-float hardware
> has been around for quite a while, and only in the last few months has
> it been possible to actually rebuild the whole distro with GCC for ARM
> hard-float.

 yes.  i _did_ advise the debian developers to consider automating the
process of rebuilding distros.  they have some rather stupid circular
_build_ dependencies which they've managed to get themselves into by
way of a) splitting the build (-dev) packages from the binary packages
b) bootstrapping themselves up over NN years ago and never doing
complete from-scratch builds, since.

 whoops.