Gordan Bobic <gordan(a)bobich.net> writes:
Jon Masters wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-03-26 at 21:10 +0000, Matthew Wilson wrote:
>
>> 2. Armv7 / VFP / NEON support to squeeze a bit more performance out
>> (where appropriate to the h/w).
>
> FWIW, I think (eventually), moving to an ARMv7 base has a lot of
> benefit, with not a (lot) of drawback. After all, Fedora ARM is new
> enough that there isn't a lot of legacy out there (there will always be
> old ARM boards people want to use, certainly), and all of the boards now
> being produced are based on Cortex (or similar) designs with v7. There
> are one or two notable exceptions, but it's obvious where things are
> headed. It's really just a question of /when/ to switch IMHO.
I think you are overestimating the proliveration of ARMv7. There are a
lot of capable ARMv5 devices out there, such as the SheevaPlug/GuruPlug.
Is the plan to offer both v5 and v7 builds (same way as there is an x86
and x86-64 build)? Or v7 only?
Please do not alienate us SheevaPlug/GuruPlug users.
IMO committing to ARMv7 to the point of exclusion of everything else
would be a bad idea at the moment. The primary motivation for the v7
switch is performance, and there are still a number of ARMv5 and ARMv6
devices out there that are more than adequate on the ARM performance scale.
Seconded. Please do not drop v5 support.
Gordan
-derek
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