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From: Dan Johansson <dan@×××.nu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ARM 17.0 profile change
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2018 19:56:30
Message-Id: 4b4a8187-21d6-27b4-5269-f7d9163e29c7@dmj.nu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ARM 17.0 profile change by "Corentin “Nado” Pazdera"
1 On 22.09.2018 20:04, Corentin “Nado” Pazdera wrote:
2 > September 22, 2018 5:36 PM, "Dan Johansson" <Dan.Johansson@×××.nu> wrote:
3 >
4 >> Hi,
5 >>
6 >> Today when I was preparing for a "emereg --update ..." on my Raspberry
7 >> PI 2B I saw that there was a news item regarding
8 >> "2018-09-07-arm-17-profile-migration" where it states (among other
9 >> things) "In short, the tuple will change from
10 >> armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi to
11 >> armv7a-unknown-linux-gnueabihf or similar.".
12 >>
13 >> Today I have the profile set to "default/linux/arm/13.0/armv7a (dev)"
14 >> and I have the following in make.conf
15 >> CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=armv7-a -mfpu=vfpv3-d16 -mfloat-abi=hard"
16 >> CHOST="armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi"
17 >>
18 >> I am not 100% sure on what to set my profile & CHOST to for this Raspberry.
19 >>
20 >> So (some) of my questions are.
21 >> 1) Which new profile should a use for a Raspberry PI 2B which runs as a
22 >> headless "server" (i.e. now desktop environment running)? I suspect
23 >> "default/linux/arm/17.0/armv7a" would be a good idea?
24 >> 2) What would be the correct CFLAGS & CHOST in make.conf?
25 >
26 > Hi,
27 >
28 > The script linked in the news item should take care of that.
29 > Don't forget to backup your packages (quickpkg */*) before doing the migration, it will help in
30 > case you need to rollback.
31
32 Thanks for your feedback. Yes I took a look at the linked script (after
33 I sent the mail) and it looks like it takes car of "everything".
34
35 But better safe than sorry, so I am going to shutdown the Raspberry,
36 take out the CF-Card, make a copy of the card and THEN I will try the
37 profile change.
38
39 Regards,
40 --
41 Dan Johansson
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