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#2526
Originally Posted by sulu View Post
just a thought:
With Debian introducing the new armhf (hf= hard float) architecture and the N900's Cortex A8 supporting this architecture might it be possible to re-base Easy Debian on it? I've read about performance increases of up to 40% in special situations (although mostly it won't even be noticeable). If it works this won't happen anytime soon (maybe in a year or two), but I'd like to have some thoughts of people who are more familiar with this topic than I am.
Not sure about this, but if you compile the whole system (easy debian in this case) with HF you might also need an adapted kernel (unless the interface between libc and kernel is independent of the architecture/ABI, which is probably not the case).

Some day we'll be able to boot an HF-compiled debian with an upstream kernel, but it'll take some time until that happens..