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

Wichmann, Mats D mats.d.wichmann at intel.com
Wed Aug 15 14:02:50 PDT 2007


John Cherry wrote:
> 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... :)

It's possible :)

> 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.

Yeah, we'd hope so.

That does help frame the discussion somewhat.  While LSB is
normally a binary starard this suggests that issues specific
to that would have less weight in this environment.




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