From: pebolle@tiscali.nl (Paul Bolle)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: remove ARM710 specific assembler code
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 16:50:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1400251841.20342.50.camel@x220> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140516125545.GO3693@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 13:55 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> There was a CPU called the ARM710, it was ARMv3 and it had no Thumb support.
>
> There is also a CPU called the ARM710T, which is ARMv4 and has Thumb support.
>
> These are two completely different CPUs, the former was removed along with
> the removal of ARMv3 support. The latter remains because we still support
> ARMv4.
Thanks for taking the time to explain this. Next time I hope to be more
aware of the possibility of important differences between ARM CPUs that
have rather similar names.
Paul Bolle
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From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
To: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: remove ARM710 specific assembler code
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 16:50:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1400251841.20342.50.camel@x220> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140516125545.GO3693@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 13:55 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> There was a CPU called the ARM710, it was ARMv3 and it had no Thumb support.
>
> There is also a CPU called the ARM710T, which is ARMv4 and has Thumb support.
>
> These are two completely different CPUs, the former was removed along with
> the removal of ARMv3 support. The latter remains because we still support
> ARMv4.
Thanks for taking the time to explain this. Next time I hope to be more
aware of the possibility of important differences between ARM CPUs that
have rather similar names.
Paul Bolle
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-16 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-28 21:46 [PATCH] ARM: remove last use of CONFIG_CPU_ARM710 Paul Bolle
2013-03-28 21:46 ` Paul Bolle
2014-05-14 8:24 ` [PATCH] [RESEND] " Paul Bolle
2014-05-14 8:24 ` Paul Bolle
2014-05-14 8:48 ` Alexander Shiyan
2014-05-14 8:48 ` Alexander Shiyan
2014-05-14 9:07 ` Paul Bolle
2014-05-14 9:07 ` Paul Bolle
2014-05-14 9:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-05-14 9:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-05-14 9:25 ` Paul Bolle
2014-05-14 9:25 ` Paul Bolle
2014-05-14 9:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-05-14 9:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-05-16 9:29 ` [PATCH] ARM: remove ARM710 specific assembler code Paul Bolle
2014-05-16 9:29 ` Paul Bolle
2014-05-16 12:55 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-05-16 12:55 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-05-16 14:50 ` Paul Bolle [this message]
2014-05-16 14:50 ` Paul Bolle
2014-05-17 9:23 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-05-17 9:23 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-05-17 9:46 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-05-17 9:46 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-05-17 9:56 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-05-17 9:56 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-05-17 10:26 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-05-17 10:26 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-05-19 10:18 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-05-19 10:18 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-05-19 11:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-05-19 11:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-05-20 16:05 ` Tony Lindgren
2014-05-20 16:05 ` Tony Lindgren
2014-05-20 20:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-05-20 20:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-05-22 18:40 ` Tony Lindgren
2014-05-22 18:40 ` Tony Lindgren
2014-05-22 18:42 ` Tony Lindgren
2014-05-22 18:42 ` Tony Lindgren
2014-05-20 15:48 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-05-20 15:48 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-05-20 16:14 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-05-20 16:14 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-05-23 9:07 ` [PATCH] [RESEND] ARM: remove last use of CONFIG_CPU_ARM710 Paul Bolle
2014-05-23 9:07 ` Paul Bolle
2014-05-23 9:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-05-23 9:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
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