On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 01:27:19PM +1100, Simon Wise wrote:
> >>My understanding is that both the rpi0 and rpi1 are based on a ARMv6
> >>chip, which makes them closer to armel than to armhf. So, I'm afraid
> >>you're stuck with raspbian for now.
>
> raspbian is in between armel and armhf because debian armel is (or was then)
> compiled without hard float support while debian armhf is compiled for arm7
> ... so since PIs are arm6 with FPU neither is suitable ... raspbian is
> compiled to suit PIs.

Actually, armel _is_ perfectly suitable, just a bit slower. However,
rapbian guys wanted to use all the computing power of pi's CPU, and thus
used a debased version of armhf. They really should have named the
architecture different.

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