dc7 - 1.0

DebConf7

Speakers
Wookey
Schedule
Day 10
Room Upper Talk Room
Start time 16:30
Duration 00:45
Info
ID 103
Event type Lecture
Track DebConf
Language English
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Debian Armel Port

Why arm has a new port

The ARM Linux ABI has changed, and so has the kernel syscall mechanism. This gives numerous speed and flexibility advantages, but makes new arm binaries completely incompatible with old ones. This talk covers what has changed, and why, and what Debian is doing about it. The archive will need to contain both old and new arm variants for at least one release cycle.