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Originally Posted by HarryT
What would be the benefit of running an updated kernel? Would it permit a wider range of applications to be ported to the iLiad?
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My personal pet peeve is ARM EABI support (2.6.16 and greater). With that, it would be feasible to use Debian armel experimental branch binaries out-of-the-box. It would also be possible to peruse Nokia's Maemo development CDs for N800 and N770 (as they also use EABI).
Of course, it would have a lot of other benefits (better power management, etc), the one above is sufficient for me to try to help a bit :-).
P.S.: The problem with using normal Debian ARM port binaries is that they use a form of floating point support that is VERY slow. The iliad right now uses another form of floating point support that is way faster, but that means compiling "in a special way". Using ARM EABI we would get the best of both worlds (fast and compatible with other distributions if we put the needed libraries in)... In fact, even OE (OpenEmbeded, the distribution that the iliad uses) is migrating to EABI too. Hope this clears it up a bit
