Misleading title. . .

Posted Mar 17, 2005 13:52 UTC (Thu) by wookey (subscriber, #5501) [Link]

It's true that there will be massive ABI breakage for etch to default to soft floating point (as there are only about two ARM CPUs with hardware floating point ever made so having this as the inefficient default for everything is pretty dumb). And whilst we are breaking everything there are a few other changes that are deemed to be a good idea.

Also although ARM is very widely used and lot of people base their work on debian's stuff or otherwise find it a useful resource (it's a big part of our business for example), the fraction of direct downloads from debian ftp mirrors is tiny: much less than 1%. So putting it on scc.debian.org makes sense to me. If embedded Debian ever reaches critical mass and millions of people start downloading debian-arm for their routers, then things might change and we could get bumped back up to mainline port status.