On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 12:25 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> sooo... although the situation *right now* is that nobody in the
> commercial world is the slightest bit interested in LSB because they
> all do "custom builds" of complete software stacks, it could be said
> that *if* the f
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Wookey wrote:
>
>> In my experience anyone distributing binaries actually picks a small
>> set of distros and builds for those explicitly, rather than relying
>> on the LSB. Does that mean that
At the risk of overstating the obvious, there are also ABI guarantees
at stake here, which in my mind are architecture agnostic. OpenGL
applications need to know which bits (API functions) of which core
versions can be expected to be resolved during load time and which
must be queried through GetP
On 06/01/2011 07:25 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
so in _that_ regard, the question becomes: "are the efforts of the
free software community better off being spent elsewhere"? and "what
benefit is there *TO THE FREE SOFTWARE COMMUNITY* of doing LSB for
ARM"? forget the proprietary j
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 07:32:18AM +0900, David Rusling wrote:
>On 06/01/11 01:22, Wookey wrote:
>
>>As this is a non-trivial amount of work, the question then arises,
>>does anyone care about this enough to actually do the work? Linaro is
>>an obvious organisation that could expend some engineerin
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Wookey wrote:
> In my experience anyone distributing binaries actually picks a small
> set of distros and builds for those explicitly, rather than relying
> on the LSB. Does that mean that it's not actually useful in the real
> world? I guess in a sense this posti
[Apologies for the wide distibution of this mail (Debian, Ubuntu and
Fedora main+arm dev lists, plus linaro and lsb) but it's useful to
catch people who care about this issue enough to do some work. Do
please bear the distribution in mind when replying, focussing any
detailed discussion on linaro-d
Wookey,
the short answer is 'yes'. The next question is 'who?'.Maybe
this can be bolted onto the hard float work, I'll let Konstantinos and
Steve respond...
Dave
On 06/01/11 01:22, Wookey wrote:
[Apologies for the wide distibution of this mail (Debian, Ubuntu and
Fedora main+arm dev
