From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:08:54 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] ARM cores In-Reply-To: <4D3DA411.8080906@free.fr> References: <1295822495-16972-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> <1295822495-16972-7-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> <87lj2ahe4y.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <20110124165711.381989cf@surf> <4D3DA411.8080906@free.fr> Message-ID: <20110124180854.5ee86742@surf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:08:49 +0100 Eric BENARD wrote: > NEON (and VFP) is a feature of cortex A8 : > http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a8.php > > It's optional on A5 & A9 but not on A8. Yes, sorry. I've given the example of Marvell Dove and Nvidia Tegra 2, which presumably are Cortex-A9. But it doesn't change my initial comment: if the user says "I'm using Cortex A9", it's not enough to decide whether you can use NEON or not. Regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com