Supporting Architectures above armv5tel

Project Name

Supporting Architectures Above armv5tel

Project Description

The armv5tel architecture version is supported by some common devices such as the Marvell Feroceon processors used in most plug computers. However, later versions of the architecture support advanced features, and using armv5tel code on those processors may result in suboptimal performance.

This project will research ways that Fedora-ARM could support higher processor versions effectively without recompiling the entire Fedora package universe -- for example, by providing an armv7 + hardfp glibc and kernel. This involves performance testing across multiple devices.

Initial contacts: ctyler, PaulW

Project Leader(s)

Mark Eamiguel

Project Details

-Run a benchmark on armv5tel and armv7tel processors

Project Plan

Goals for each release:

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3

Things to learn

-Ways of benchmarking ARM processors
-Compiling kernel and glibc
-Familiarization of the ARM hardware

Project News

October 15, 2010

               - Project page updated (Things to learn)