From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas) Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 17:56:21 +0100 Subject: Single zImage and A15/LPAE In-Reply-To: <201305292351.41096.arnd@arndb.de> References: <50735B75.8070109@wwwdotorg.org> <2274563.opVbLLPT1p@wuerfel> <20130529151555.GP17767@MacBook-Pro.local> <201305292351.41096.arnd@arndb.de> Message-ID: <20130530165621.GL23631@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 10:51:40PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 29 May 2013, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > > I think to do this right, we need to treat ARMv7+LPAE as a separate > > > architecture level, just like we treat ARMv6, ARMv7 as separate > > > compatible architectures. BTW, is there an official name for that > > > architecture? > > > > The official is Large Physical Address Extension which is an extension > > to ARMv7, so not a new architecture. > > Ah, too bad. I had hoped there were still postfixes like v6K or v4T. > I guess there is no complete list of ARMv7 extensions anywhere, right? It's the ARM ARM, though not a list. With ARMv7 we moved away from adding suffixes to the architecture number and introduced the CPUID scheme to check for what's available on a CPU. -- Catalin