clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Not so strange if you recall that the porting work for Linux (and
> probably also BSD) to run on ARM platforms had been done already.
>
> One possible difference might be the floating point math, which doesn't
> seem to be as straightforward as we're used to on x86 machines. I guess
> there is /some/ reason why the official reference Linux distro for the
> Pi is built to use software-emulated floating point math, rather than
> the on-chip floating point hardware.
>
>
> Even if it turns out that there's nothing else to do, there's still
> porting work to be done in the sense of checking whether the
> platform-specific header files make sense for the ARM.

I hope you're porting for Raspbian as it supports hardfloat.
Raspbian also became the recommended distro some months ago.

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