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From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Android and compatibility with deprecated armv7 instructions
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 21:33:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6519224.oaibQ22oiI@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140704192405.GE14896@sirena.org.uk>

On Friday 04 July 2014 20:24:05 Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> Another question I think it's worth asking is what the use case for 32
> bit mode is other than preexisting binaries - I guess there's a case for
> smaller binaries giving better cache utilisation?

If you wanted that, you'd probably run x32-mode (or whatever it gets called
on ARM64), which I'd expect to also be more efficient ;-)

Seriously, backwards-compatibility is the only reason I can think of
really, but that doesn't /have/ to mean existing binaries; there is a large
amount of source code that can readily be compiled to any CPU as long as
it's little-endian 32-bit.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-04 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-01 23:06 Android and compatibility with deprecated armv7 instructions Colin Cross
2014-07-01 23:42 ` Olof Johansson
2014-07-01 23:48   ` Mark Brown
2014-07-02 10:01     ` Will Deacon
2014-07-02 15:48       ` Colin Cross
2014-07-02 16:16         ` Will Deacon
2014-07-02 18:03           ` Christopher Covington
2014-07-02 18:25             ` Will Deacon
2014-07-02 19:47               ` Mark Brown
2014-07-05 21:26           ` Rob Herring
2014-07-02 16:39       ` Mark Brown
2014-07-02 17:01         ` Will Deacon
2014-07-02 17:33           ` Mark Brown
2014-07-02 22:14           ` Grant Likely
2014-07-03 10:41             ` Catalin Marinas
2014-07-03 14:28               ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-07-03 15:00                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-03 15:40                   ` Grant Likely
2014-07-03 17:13                   ` Catalin Marinas
2014-07-03 17:48                     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-03 18:15                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-07-03 18:30                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-03 18:37                         ` Will Deacon
2014-07-03 18:52                           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-03 19:00                             ` Will Deacon
2014-07-04  8:57                         ` Catalin Marinas
2014-07-04  9:25                           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-04 10:12                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-07-04 14:09                               ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-07-04 12:56                             ` Grant Likely
2014-07-04 13:31                               ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-03 18:46                       ` Will Deacon
2014-07-03 18:53                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-07-03 19:07                           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-03 19:40                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-07-04 13:25                     ` Grant Likely
2014-07-03 16:22               ` Grant Likely
2014-07-03 17:05                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-03 17:32                   ` Will Deacon
2014-07-03 18:23                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-07-03 18:38                       ` Peter Maydell
2014-07-03 18:40                       ` Will Deacon
2014-07-03 18:32                     ` Mark Brown
2014-07-03 22:16                     ` Måns Rullgård
2014-07-03 22:47                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-04  7:08                         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-07-04  8:24                           ` Catalin Marinas
2014-07-04  8:33                             ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-07-04  9:21                               ` Måns Rullgård
2014-07-04  9:34                                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-04 10:21                                   ` Måns Rullgård
2014-07-04 10:33                                     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-04 11:00                                       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-07-04 17:28                                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2014-07-03 17:43                 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-07-04 13:22                   ` Grant Likely
2014-07-04 19:24                     ` Mark Brown
2014-07-04 19:33                       ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2014-07-04 22:06                         ` Måns Rullgård
2014-07-04 22:08                         ` Mark Brown
2014-07-05 11:14                     ` Catalin Marinas
2014-07-05 11:25                       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-07-05 16:43                       ` Mark Brown
2014-07-05 17:06                         ` Catalin Marinas
2014-07-05 18:43                           ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-07-05 21:19                             ` Catalin Marinas
2014-07-06 15:39                               ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-07-07 13:59                                 ` Janne Grunau
2014-07-07 14:52                                   ` Catalin Marinas
2014-07-07 17:52                                     ` Janne Grunau
2014-07-07 15:43                                   ` Peter Maydell
2014-07-08  5:28                                   ` Måns Rullgård
2014-07-07 14:35                                 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-07-07 21:26                                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-07-07 12:28                       ` Grant Likely
2014-07-07 18:35                         ` Colin Cross

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