Bug#738981: Fwd: Bug#738981: Switch to use generic_fpu for ARM

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 6:37 PM, peter green <plugwash at p10link.net> wrote:
> Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>
>> Dear ARM porters,
>>
>> Please see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=738981
>> for full context. I've uploaded a patch proposed by Riku that AFAIUI
>> makes mpg123 really slow on all arm targets, while unbreaking it on
>> some others.
>>
>> As one of the maintainers of the mpg123 without familiarity about the
>> scope of the Debian arm port
>
> Debian has TWO official arm ports.
>
> Armel has a minimum CPU requirement of armv4t with no gaurantee that there
> will be any floating point hardware at all.
> Armhf has a minimum CPU requirement of armv7-a with vfpv3-d16, neon is not
> gauranteed to be available (but it is very likely to be in pratice).
>
> As well as the two official arm ports there is also Raspbian which targets
> armv6 with vfpv2, raspbian also uses the armhf architecture name but can be
> distinguished by using dpkg-vendor.

With this explanation, I think it would help a lot to all armhf users
if the following line was restricted to the armel port:

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-multimedia/mpg123.git;a=blob;f=debian/rules;h=afb018502621352914e757338a2dace6b65522cb;hb=HEAD#l25

Does anyone disagree that this is a good move, at least until
something like https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=738981#25
is implemented?

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard