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Date:      Mon, 15 Aug 2016 20:44:38 +0200
From:      Toby <misc.lists@fsck.ch>
To:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Updating RPI2 from 11-CURRENT to RELENG_11
Message-ID:  <57B20D96.4020303@fsck.ch>
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfoW9Yg-6f7g6MMaos8ZhX5sndrQVxuKMqo%2BLn7RQU_xTw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 13/08/16 22:37, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Toby <misc.lists@fsck.ch> wrote:
>
> 20160517:
>         The armv6 port now defaults to hard float ABI. Limited support
>         for running both hardfloat and soft float on the same system
>         is available using the libraries installed with -DWITH_LIBSOFT.
>         This has only been tested as an upgrade path for installworld
>         and packages may fail or need manual intervention to run. New
>         packages will be needed.
>
>         To update an existing self-hosted armv6hf system, you must add
>         TARGET_ARCH=armv6 on the make command line for both the build
>         and the install steps
> Short answer is that you'll need to re-install all packages because of this.
> They will work for a while, but as updates happen 'cross threading' can
> occur if the updates are partial unless you specifically do special things.
> Only extreme special needs use cases will be affected (like having only
> binaries linked against the soft float ABI libraries).
>
> Warner
Thanks for the explanation. My buildworld is now done and I'll update
the packages
over the next few days.

Toby



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