New Arch: armv7

[Sylvain Garrigues]

This is excellent news, thank you so much for your hard work!


> Le 11 août 2017 à 07:22, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> a écrit :
> 
> As discussed here in June, we're creating a new arch.
> 
> I've landed on the armv7 name (as opposed to earmv7hf or armv7l) for the
> following reasons:
> 
> 1. armv7 isn't a huge amount of work to implement in our tree, while the
> other two names require substantially more complicated .if statements in
> makefiles.
> 2. Neither of the other names actually buy us a large amount in the ports.
> Autoconf is split and many other ports do different things to get the
> system they are running on and wouldn't benefit from the other names.
> There's a small number of ports that might be better, but not enough to
> justify the extra work in base.
> 3. It's more like the names we've been using, and won't cause confusion
> with our user base. And it will be easy enough for outsiders to see what we
> support from it without needing the decoder ring for NetBSD, or dealing
> with 'what's the trailing l mean, why doesn't armv6 have it, or arm and
> what about armeb' all the time.
> 
> btw, if we ever do a big endian port, armv7eb will be the name, per project
> tradition.
> 
> So, I'll be finalizing FCP-0100 with this data (I've sent the pull request)
> and will get an implementation together (I have the start of one I was able
> to knock out in about an hour, after spending twice that on the other two
> choices w/o reaching completion) and if there's issues that arise as we
> move forward, cope with them on the way to asking core to vote to bless
> this is the consensus of the relevant parts of the community.
> 
> I hope to have it committed by the end of the month, and hope that the FCP
> process won't unduly delay things.
> 
> Warner
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