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Címzett: Adam Borowski
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Tárgy: Re: [DNG] Debian is dropping support for i586. Are we?
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 05:24:26PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
>The CPU in Raspberry Pi 1 does support some, but not all, new features the
>armhf arch requires. The Raspbian team wanted to get all speedups they can,
>and, as for example floating point tasks greatly benefit from armhf's
>calling convention -- instead of using fully compatible armel, Raspbian guys
>decided to use modified armhf. This led to massive confusion, breaking any
>external repositories compiled for baseline armhf.
>
>Likewise, you can rebuild current unstable with -march=i586, but it'll
>break whenever an user takes a binary package from regular Debian or any
>other repository not recompiled with -march=i586.


Ah, thanks for the clarification.