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Debian already supports ARM with and without hard float. Supporting a soft-float RISC is not different.

• rwmj 9y ago
  That's a proof that something is possible. Actually doing it is a huge amount of work. ARM and RISC-V both have different ABIs for hard/soft float and once you support multiple ABIs you end up compiling everything twice and multiarching everything. Also that's ARMv7 (32 bit). This is a 64 bit chip and I'm not aware of any ARM 64 bit chip that lacks an FPU. In any case I was thinking about kernel or M-layer emulation of floats which is different, requires a bunch of code to be written once, but doesn't require software gymnastics from the distro.
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