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I'm trying to find an OS that was compiled with -mfloat-abi=softfp to be able to use my precompiled ARM binaries on my Raspberry. Although I understand the reason why Raspbian and Arch are compiled with hard, I'd like to give it a try and compare the performance.

Is there such a distribution/image?

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Arch Linux

At this stage (archlinuxarm-13-06-2012.img), Arch uses soft float ABI (softfp). You'd better grab an image quick, because it will start using hard float soon.

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  • That's interesting since yesterday they told me on IRC that it's a hard float image... OK, thanks, I'll give it a try... – Scolytus Aug 8 '12 at 7:37
  • I haven't got my Pi to hand Once you've burnt the Arch image, you should be able to find out with it is hard or soft. uname -a maybe? – Alex Chamberlain Aug 8 '12 at 7:46
  • OK, I'll give it a try... – Scolytus Aug 8 '12 at 7:50
  • or gcc -v, Arch definitely works with soft float – user13 Aug 8 '12 at 8:25
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    @Scolytus #archlinux-arm is a better channel (for ARM stuff) – Alex Chamberlain Aug 8 '12 at 12:34
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Debian, Arch and other images.

You can still download the old debian wheezy image from the official raspberry pi download mirror. Debian wheezy image is 100% sure softfloat, because it is the official arm port of debian.

There exists no official link to it, but you can find it in the index of the mirror.

http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/images/

http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/images/debian/7/

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  • good to know... Would be nice if they would keep the links on the page... – Scolytus Aug 8 '12 at 12:39

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