Hi,
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:30:42 +0100, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 17 Mar 2011, at 10:14, michael wrote:
Is this a situation that is likely to change soon? With the
explosive growth
of the ARM processor in mobile and embedded devices it would seem
time that
it was a tier one architecture.
Tier one or not depends on someone who is willing to spend time on
maintaining, packaging and supporting it. [...]
... and has the hardware.
The main reason no new ARM releases have been packaged is because
packaging one mainly results in a lot of questions from people who
downloaded/installed it and then notice that the code simply crashes
(because it turns out they have an incompatible platform compared to
what the package was built for).
Nevertheless, there will be a 2.4.4 release for ARM/linux (barring any
last-minute showstoppers) ARMv5/EABI/softfloat, an rc1 is already on the
ftp. There will be an ARM/iOS crosscompiler release too.
There are daily tests run for ARM/linux for both stable and trunk (see
http://www.freepascal.org/testsuite/cgi-bin/testsuite.cgi?os=15&cpu=6&version=0&date=).
At least for 2.5.1 the number of failures has been in the "okay"-range
for some time now.
I think it's really a "full time spare time" job to officially
support ARM, even if you pick only a subset of all possible
platforms.
Ack.
Thomas
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