Re: [Gumstix-users] FYI, Debian works very well on gumstix.

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To anyone else interested in Debian or EmDebian on the Gumstix I have found
this site to be of great help:

http://paul-strefling.blogspot.com/2011/06/installing-debian-on-gumstix-overo.html

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Scott Ellis <sc...@ju...> wrote:

> Thanks Philip.
>
> Any known downsides to hard float other then not being able to run some
> third-party binaries?
>
> Anything specific you've seen you'd suggest watching for?
>
>
> On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 13:15 -0600, Philip Balister wrote:
> > On 08/29/2012 12:55 PM, Scott Ellis wrote:
> > > Hi David,
> > >
> > >> We have also used the hard float option (--arch=armhf) but that is
> > >> still unstable.
> > >
> > > Unstable in what sense? I've recently enabled armhf in some Yocto
> builds
> > > based on a customer request.
> > >
> > > I ran the whetstone test from here, before and after
> > >
> > > ftp://www.netlib.org/benchmark/whetstone.c
> > >
> > > Performance went from 25 MIPS to 50 MIPS.
> > >
> > > I have no idea if this translates to any real world benefit.
> >
> > The big change in armhf abi is that functions can return floating point
> > numbers in the NEON registers. Mnay floating point applications do not
> > really need this. It sounds like the Whetstone benchmark has a lot of
> > functions that return floating point values.
> >
> > Philip
> >
> > >
> > > But I also haven't seen any ill effects with this change.
> > >
> > > We are running Qt GUI touchscreen apps with some custom drivers
> > > for McBSP, I2C and some GPIO stuff.
> > >
> > > We are still in active development for this project.
> > >
> > > What problems have you seen?
> > >
> > > Scott
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 17:03 +0000, dan...@gm... wrote:
> > >> Any chance of getting dsp to work?
> > >> Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
> > >>
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: <dav...@no...>
> > >> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:59:02
> > >> To: <gum...@li...>
> > >> Reply-To: "General mailing list for gumstix users."
> > >>    <gum...@li...>
> > >> Subject: [Gumstix-users] FYI,  Debian works very well on gumstix.
> > >>
> > >> I have seen a lot of people grumbling about how stuff is out of date
> on
> > >> the gumstix website.   Recently my colleague got fed up with Angstrom
> > >> (there were package issues) and so I moved us to debian.   It works
> GREAT
> > >> and everything is up to date.
> > >>
> > >> If you want to start using debian you can make a bootstrap with this
> > >> command:
> > >>
> > >> sudo debootstrap --verbose --foreign --arch=armel --variant=minbase
> > >> --no-check-certificate
> > >>
> --include=module-init-tools,locales,udev,aptitude,dialog,ifupdown,procps,ip
> > >>
> route,iputils-ping,pump,nano,wget,netbase,vim,subversion,git,wireless-tools
> > >> ,dnsutils,net-tools,wpasupplicant,libertas-firmware  squeeze rootfs
> > >> http://ftp.debian.org/debian
> > >>
> > >> Read the man page on debootstrap because there is another step.
> > >> We have also used the hard float option (--arch=armhf) but that is
> still
> > >> in unstable.
> > >>
> > >>
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