From 732af93fc9ab826829b4e304708b3ba196137568 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pranjal Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 06:59:19 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Updated for arm and armv7l documentation (#11825) * Updated for arm and armv7l documentation Cleared up the confusion caused by arm or armv7l mentioned somewhere and not mentioned elsewhere * :memo: Improve wording a bit. --- docs/tutorial/supported-platforms.md | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/tutorial/supported-platforms.md b/docs/tutorial/supported-platforms.md index 7474cec466c7..5cf59f33b82f 100644 --- a/docs/tutorial/supported-platforms.md +++ b/docs/tutorial/supported-platforms.md @@ -18,9 +18,13 @@ Please note, the `ARM` version of Windows is not supported for now. ### Linux The prebuilt `ia32` (`i686`) and `x64` (`amd64`) binaries of Electron are built on -Ubuntu 12.04, the `arm` binary is built against ARM v7 with hard-float ABI and +Ubuntu 12.04, the `armv7l` binary is built against ARM v7 with hard-float ABI and NEON for Debian Wheezy. +[Until the release of Electron 2.0][arm-breaking-change], Electron will also +continue to release the `armv7l` binary with a simple `arm` suffix. Both binaries +are identical. + Whether the prebuilt binary can run on a distribution depends on whether the distribution includes the libraries that Electron is linked to on the building platform, so only Ubuntu 12.04 is guaranteed to work, but following platforms @@ -29,3 +33,5 @@ are also verified to be able to run the prebuilt binaries of Electron: * Ubuntu 12.04 and later * Fedora 21 * Debian 8 + +[arm-breaking-change]: https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/master/docs/tutorial/planned-breaking-changes.md#duplicate-arm-assets