Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 11:17:58 +0200 From: Sylvain Garrigues <sylgar@gmail.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New Arch: armv7 Message-ID: <9A7B10D6-93FD-4C71-A285-DDD295053988@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfpckYgO93se06qV2Z%2Bw0h1gCKXi4t5BTcOtShLOL%2BEVbw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANCZdfpckYgO93se06qV2Z%2Bw0h1gCKXi4t5BTcOtShLOL%2BEVbw@mail.gmail.com>
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This is excellent news, thank you so much for your hard work! > Le 11 ao=C3=BBt 2017 =C3=A0 07:22, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> a = =C3=A9crit : >=20 > As discussed here in June, we're creating a new arch. >=20 > I've landed on the armv7 name (as opposed to earmv7hf or armv7l) for = the > following reasons: >=20 > 1. armv7 isn't a huge amount of work to implement in our tree, while = the > other two names require substantially more complicated .if statements = in > makefiles. > 2. Neither of the other names actually buy us a large amount in the = ports. > Autoconf is split and many other ports do different things to get the > system they are running on and wouldn't benefit from the other names. > There's a small number of ports that might be better, but not enough = to > justify the extra work in base. > 3. It's more like the names we've been using, and won't cause = confusion > with our user base. And it will be easy enough for outsiders to see = what we > support from it without needing the decoder ring for NetBSD, or = dealing > with 'what's the trailing l mean, why doesn't armv6 have it, or arm = and > what about armeb' all the time. >=20 > btw, if we ever do a big endian port, armv7eb will be the name, per = project > tradition. >=20 > So, I'll be finalizing FCP-0100 with this data (I've sent the pull = request) > and will get an implementation together (I have the start of one I was = able > to knock out in about an hour, after spending twice that on the other = two > choices w/o reaching completion) and if there's issues that arise as = we > move forward, cope with them on the way to asking core to vote to = bless > this is the consensus of the relevant parts of the community. >=20 > I hope to have it committed by the end of the month, and hope that the = FCP > process won't unduly delay things. >=20 > Warner > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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