nchip (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} nchip) wrote,@ 2007-06-22 15:38:00 |
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Since the release team update got the arm architecture names mixed, chances are that others are confused as well.
* arm - This is the current in-Debian, little-endian hard-float old-abi port.
This is somewhat inefficent port, as the hard-float code needs to be emulated
in the kernel. It is also depreciated by upstream.
* armeb - This was a effort to create an big-endian old-abi port.
Since the Linksys NSLU-2 got it's Ethernet driver reverse engineered and thus it became possible to run little-endian Debian on it, interest on this port has been weak. If interest in bigendian arm returns, it will probably be re-ported using EABI and softfloat.
* armel - This the shining new little-endian EABI (and thus soft-float) based architecture.
THIS IS SPARTA^W THE FUTURE.
* arm - This is the current in-Debian, little-endian hard-float old-abi port.
This is somewhat inefficent port, as the hard-float code needs to be emulated
in the kernel. It is also depreciated by upstream.
* armeb - This was a effort to create an big-endian old-abi port.
Since the Linksys NSLU-2 got it's Ethernet driver reverse engineered and thus it became possible to run little-endian Debian on it, interest on this port has been weak. If interest in bigendian arm returns, it will probably be re-ported using EABI and softfloat.
* armel - This the shining new little-endian EABI (and thus soft-float) based architecture.
THIS IS SPARTA^W THE FUTURE.
