From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 21:40:58 +0200 Subject: Android and compatibility with deprecated armv7 instructions In-Reply-To: <20140703190742.GE32514@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <15521199.3bNj4354Mf@wuerfel> <20140703190742.GE32514@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: <5086720.ZpuobPQnBC@wuerfel> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thursday 03 July 2014 20:07:42 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 08:53:06PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > It's certainly a very lengthy process. Just look at how long NWFPE has > > been in the kernel after it has become obsolete. > > May I remind you that I still run OABI... and still use NWFPE here. > The machine which runs this mutt uses NWFPE with OABI. The machine > that exim passes the message on to runs NWFPE with OABI. The machine > which runs screen and irssi runs NWFPE with OABI. The machine here > which operates as a print server runs NWFPE with OABI. That's four > machines. But the real question is whether you'd want to upgrade your user space if you get to replace some of these four machines with 64-bit hardware. Arnd