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Re: hf/sf [Was Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/misc/raspberrypi-userland]



On Nov 10, 2013, at 2:24 PM, Justin Cormack 
<justin%specialbusservice.com@localhost> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Matt Thomas 
> <matt%3am-software.com@localhost> wrote:
>> I strongly disagree with that.  I specifically choose use different machine
>> arches so that the hard/soft float binary packages would be separate.
>> From using soft/hard float userlands on PPC, I already knew that mixing
>> them was wrong.
> 
> Whats so wrong with it?

that i never considered the userlevel problems when I made the choice
for a separate MACHINE_ARCH.  I made the decision precisely for 
userlevel concerns.  The kernel doesn’t care at all.


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