[fpc-pascal] What ARM targets are supported by FPC?

[Henry Vermaak]

On 07/02/12 10:04, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm pretty out of the loop when it comes to embedded or small form
> factor devices. There seems to be so many different embedded
> processors and multiple versions of ARM etc - hence this message. I'm
> very interested in the RaspberryPi project, and would like to build
> some projects based on it. Does FPC support ARMv6 or later CPU's? A
> quick search on the RaspberryPi website seems to suggest that to write
> applications for it, you need ARMv6 or later support.
>
>    http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs
>
> The exact processor on the RaspberryPi board will be a ARM11 700Mhz
> CPU and the model I am looking at will have 256Mb RAM.

That should work OK.  I'm using fpc + lazarus on a Tegra 2, which is 
ARMv7.  Just make sure you have enough swap space, since I've got 512MB 
and that isn't sufficient to build lazarus.

The thing to worry about, however, is hardfloat.  Most distros are 
gearing up for it, but fpc doesn't support it, yet.

Henry