[erlang-patches] [PATCH] Detect arm/armel as ARCH=arm (to enable HiPE later on)

[Michael Stapelberg]

Hi Mikeal,

Thanks for replying so fast.

Excerpts from Mikael Pettersson's message of 2010-09-22 23:17:18 +0200:
> What is the output of `uname -a' on this platform?
[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~] > uname -a
Linux maemo-desktop 2.6.27-16-generic #1 SMP Tue Dec 1 17:56:54 UTC 2009 arm GNU/Linux

On the Nokia N900 itself (on the running device, NOT the SDK), I get:
Nokia-N900:~# uname -a
Linux Nokia-N900 2.6.28.10power40 #1 PREEMPT Tue Aug 10 09:30:52 EEST 2010 armv7l unknown

> I must admit I've never seen Linux/ARM platforms omit the
> CPU ISA generation number before.  Accepting just plain 'arm'
> risks us running on .e.g ARMv4 which I can't guarantee
> will work -- HiPE has been developed and tested of ARMv5TE only.
> (Not that I care about v4.  But I get the blame if it
> built and then doesn't work at runtime.)
Ah, I see why you don’t have arm/armel in there now.

> So why doesn't "maemo platform" say arm{v5,v6,v7}
> like real native Linux platforms do?
I have no idea. Maybe the best way to go is to include patches in the maemo
package of erlang for this issue?

Best regards,
Michael