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On 07/10/2012 04:16 PM, Alexander Holler wrote:

> And it isn't so that the name will have to be used that seldom, at least 
> every distribution would need to use it to name the flavour, like e.g. 
> "Fedora AArch64hf" or "Debian AArch64".

The good news is we won't need an "hf" release because we're all going
to just agree on the ABI on day one, and standardize the paths, and all
the distros are going to live happily ever after[0].

Jon.

[0] The first part at least is actually true. There is an ABI that I
reviewed a long time back (you can download it), and we assume the
presence of all kinds of previously optional stuff...like the fp.