From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.windriver.com ([147.11.1.11]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm5k2-00032g-8P for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:09:46 +0200 Received: from ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hca [147.11.189.40]) by mail.windriver.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p6RF37FV022343 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL) for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:05:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Macintosh-5.local (172.25.36.226) by ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.50) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.255.0; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:04:53 -0700 Message-ID: <4E302914.7040207@windriver.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:04:52 -0500 From: Mark Hatle Organization: Wind River Systems User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: References: <7cdd5b62608ae2047d4fdd2ee98e452398401b1e.1311776363.git.richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> <4E30244A.5030209@windriver.com> <1311778937.30326.361.camel@phil-desktop> In-Reply-To: <1311778937.30326.361.camel@phil-desktop> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] base.bbclass: Add compatibility package name mapping handler X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:09:46 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 7/27/11 10:02 AM, Phil Blundell wrote: > On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 09:44 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote: >> On 7/27/11 9:29 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: >>> This means if PKGARCHCOMPAT_ARMV7A is set, "armv7a-vfp-neon" is renamed >>> to be "armv7a". Other compatibility mappings can be added as needed. >> >> There are multiple armv7 cores without neon... I think there might even be one >> or two custom cores w/o VFP. (Yes I know this violates the core spec from ARM, >> but people do that all of the time.) > > Which spec are you thinking of? As far as I know, VFP has always been > optional for both ARM11 and Cortex. I thought VFP was part of the instruction set as of ARMv7. Neon is recommended but options. As I mentioned though, I know of chips in design that don't have Neon, and I suspect also don't have VFP -- but they're ARMv7.. (they also have stripped out the thumb2 part as well..) --Mark > p. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core