On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 09:33:54PM +0100, martinwguy wrote: > There is a way: for Debian armhf to re-target on v6 in a future release. > That would break none of the existing installations and make Debian > more Universal as per its manifesto. With hindsight it would have been > better for Debian armhf to have targetted on the lowest arch version > that almost always had a VFP unit, but that forward path is easy.
thumb2 support saves memory and cache especially. That I believe was the main reason to pick v7 over v6. > It seems a net win compared to a few % extra speed in FPU-intensive > apps on v7+ CPUs. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130207211024.gl30...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
