Summary of the ARM ports BoF at DC15

[ Please note the cross-post and Reply-To ] Hi folks, As promised, here's a quick summary of what was discussed at the BoF session in Heidelberg. Apologies for the delay - it takes a while to write these up, especially when struck down with the traditional post-DebConf plague. :-( Thanks to the

Re: nodejs on arm64 now in experimental

2015-09-11 10:48 GMT+02:00 Edmund Grimley Evans < edmund.grimley.ev...@gmail.com>: > This seems to be the problem on armel: > > configure:o['variables']['arm_fpu'] = 'vfpv2' > > It probably should be "vfp" instead of "vfpv2". A GCC man page says: > >-mfpu=name >-mfpe=number >

Re: nodejs on arm64 now in experimental

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Edmund Grimley Evans wrote: > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.javascript.v8.general/7096 > says: "Starting with the 3.18 release, the minimal V8 requirements > will increase to ARMv6 + VFPv2." Well

Re: nodejs on arm64 now in experimental

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 03:58:04PM +0100, Edmund Grimley Evans wrote: > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.javascript.v8.general/7096 > says: "Starting with the 3.18 release, the minimal V8 requirements > will increase to ARMv6 + VFPv2." > > That's something that's changed since

Re: nodejs on arm64 now in experimental

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 04:25:32PM +0100, Edmund Grimley Evans wrote: > Doesn't "softfloat" refer to the ABI rather than the hardware? So you > can pass floats in integer registers, as if you didn't have any FPU, > but move them into FPU registers to do arithmetic. I believe you can optionally