Hard float?

[kmihelich]

Let's make it simple: Fresh Install Only.

[undici77]

Hello friends,
some news about Hardware Floating Point (armhf) for Arch Linux and Raspberry Pi?

Thanks
Undici77

[kmihelich]

When it's done, you'll know.

[nomis05]

Sounds really great! Appreciate your hard work and will make a donation soon ...

[cyberic]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WarheadsSE', 'P')lugBuild is a beast, and it just takes time really

[pepedog]

A huge bulk of the build is already done, only stuff that failed and need special attention is left.
No point re-inventing the wheel

[cyberic]

That's not what I meant. I juste wanted to know how long it takes, for instance, to compile every package for a given architecture, and with which hardware... just for my information.

[kmihelich]

It's proportional to the amount and kind of hardware available to build, as well as free time. There are a lot of circular dependencies through the combination of depends and makedepends, and it takes a significant amount of time to work through issues to get everything built. Arch is not trivial to build from scratch.

[ChrisKempson]

Really looking forward to this

As the initial stance was no to HF just wondering what changed this? Did the "somewhat uncertain" benefit become certain and thus warrant the 8GB worth of packages? I'd been a little sceptical about the benefit too so would love to know

[pepedog]

Some cash became available, plus a second v6 hard float device is coming.
Also Eben asked if it could be done. No money or hardware was donated by the foundation