Hi all, I'm having a few questions about the Arch Linux ARM support for the Raspberry Pi. I have read a lot of forum topics, but I can't get a good view of how well the RPi is supported.
[*] First of all, the Raspberry Pi has an armv6 cpu, but I've read somewhere that alarm only comes in armv5 for the raspberry Pi. Has this changed, and if not, does this affect performance?
[*] The Raspberry Pi uses a special Broadcom Videocore GPU that has its own proprietary instruction set and architecture that is closely guarded by Broadcom; the compiler for it is not available. But you can use OpenGL ES to access it, how is well is that supported?
[*] XBMC. I'm planning to use my RPi as a multimedia center, so xbmc is a must. I can see at the package page that xbmc is only supported for armv7, so I'll probably have to compile it myself. How well does this works?
[*] I would also like to know the general performance of alarm on the RPi compared to Debian.
Thank you very much!