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2007-08-22
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Originally Posted by Irongeek
As long as the debs are targeted for maemo, there is no difference.
I've noticed some DEBs are ARM, but some are labeled ARMEL. What exactly is the difference?
Generally speaking, "armel" is a clarification of "arm" that reflects the endianness of the architecture. Technically, arm processors can be either little-endian ("armel") or big-endian ("armeb"). Nokia's arm processors are little-endian (similar to x86-based architectures).
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2007-08-22
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Originally Posted by gnuite
That's not quite true, 'armel' and 'arm' are two different ABI for ARM (most of the differences are related to floating point): http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiPort
Generally speaking, "armel" is a clarification of "arm" that reflects the endianness of the architecture. Technically, arm processors can be either little-endian ("armel") or big-endian ("armeb"). Nokia's arm processors are little-endian (similar to x86-based architectures).
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