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Thread: Why is the Raspberry Pi image soft-float?

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    Question Why is the Raspberry Pi image soft-float?

    The Pi image is listed under "armel" instead of "armhf". Why? The Pi has hard floating point support, and you will get much better performance using armhf distributions. Do the armhf images require an Arm7 processor? Will the generic armhf image work on the Pi?

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    Quote Originally Posted by SergeantFTC View Post
    The Pi image is listed under "armel" instead of "armhf". Why? The Pi has hard floating point support, and you will get much better performance using armhf distributions. Do the armhf images require an Arm7 processor? Will the generic armhf image work on the Pi?
    You are correct, debian doesn't support fpu on arm6.

    Here's a pretty cool writeup about raspian: http://arstechnica.com/information-t...rating-system/

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    Ah, someone would have to build a version of Kali specifically for the Pi based on Raspbian. That's disappointing. (yes I know there are alternatives designed for the Pi that probably use the FPU).

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