On 08/02/16 17:35, Adam Borowski wrote:
> 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.
>

They certainly could not do anything useful for me without hard float!


simon