On Jul 21, 2014, at 10:56 AM, Izumi Tsutsui <[email protected]> wrote:
> rjs@ wrote: > >> Izumi Tsutsui wrote: >>> skrll@ wrote: >>>> I'd guess >>>> >>>> MACHINE=hpcarm MACHINE_ARCH=earmv4 >>>> >>>> Maybe the port-masters/users can test? >> >> I can test hpcarm on an iPAQ. > > Ok, good to hear. > >>> Unfortunately all these ports are orphaned. >> >> There were updates to hpcarm recently to get it to work on WZERO3 >> hardware, what is needed for it not to be considered orphaned ? > > "orphaned" means there is no portmainter to make a decision. > http://www.netbsd.org/people/port-maintainers.html > > I have W-ZERO3 and Zaurus machines, but I'm not so motivated > because I'm not sure what's the actual benefits and risk/concerns > on switching to earm on such XScale generation machines. > (most important part is lack of migration method, of course) the default processor for earm was chosen so that xscale and above would get smaller code and slightly higher performance. > Is there any documents/articles that describe earm on NetBSD? > If not, we won't have enough brave users. The fact that NetBSD is finally using the ABI that ARM recommends and linux has been using for years? The apcs (oabi) is not supported anymore.
