Re: ARM port

Le 15 févr. 11 à 11:54, Rene Engelhard a écrit :

> Hi,
>


Hi René,


> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:38:15AM +0100, eric b wrote:
>>> OpenOffice.org is already ported to Linux ARM, oabi and eabi, le and
>>> be.
>>>
>>
>> Sure. But the current port is generic and needs some improvements  
>> at several places anyway, plus, the current OpenOffice.org is  
>> unusable on such machines.
>
> Wrong.


Sorry, but I tend to disagree : can you please tell me the arm  
version choosen by default in OOo source code ? I'm just working at  
the optimization and what I see, tells me it's not optimized at all.

But I can be wrong, and you'll tell me then ...


It is obvious, that the current OpenOffice.org can run (I know) on  
current ARM, but will be slow as hell on the machine anybody can buy,  
today. Nobody will use that, and a lot of work is mandatory.


Of course, you can acceed experimental boards, or not-public  
machines, what is different.



>> To be honest, only a stripped down version like OOoLight or OOo4Kids
>> is today - sort of- correct to my eyes.
>
> No, there's powerful multi-core ARMs. And there's armhf even  
> mitigating the floating point thing.


Yes, but where do you buy such machines *today* ? And so far, the  
only multi-core ARM I'm aware is the OMAP5 : scheduled somewhere in 2012

The reality, today says : you can buy development boards, including  
OMAP4 (like Pandaboard), and is not multi-core.


Regards,
Eric

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