On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis(a)ausil.us> wrote:
Hi all,
I wanted to kick off a discussion, I think that with the work that
Seneca is doing for armv6hl to support the Raspberry Pi most of the
need for building sfp has gone away. I would like us to drop support
for sfp in F19 that means that anyone running a kirkwood based system
would get supported software updates for approximately 13 months from
now. with cubie boards and other devices coming around that are cheap
and more powerful and similar options I think there is little benefit
to continuing to support sfp.
I'm not overly familiar with arm, but from a kernel standpoint you might
be able to enable floating point emulation. That would let you run the
hardfp binaries on the boards without an FPU. It would be a performance
hit for things doing FP heavy computation, but you could continue
supporting those boards that way.
josh