[lsb-discuss] LSB conf call minutes for 2007-08-15

John Cherry cherry at linux-foundation.org
Wed Aug 15 13:53:16 PDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 11:30 -0700, Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
> > The goal here would be for application portability from desktop to
> > mobile.  
> 
> This is an interesting direction, but presumes similar processor
> architectures... aren't most of the mobile targets being discussed
> generally different from the most common desktop processors?
> 

Except for some slightly larger mobile devices that run on x86-type
architectures.  Intel might know about some of these... :)

While binaries won't move between architectures, an LSB compliant
application should be able to be recompiled for a different architecture
without serious compatibility issues.

John




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