[fedora-arm] [Fwd: Activity Day June 10th - ARMv7 F15 hardfp bringup]

[Chris Tyler]

On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 09:54 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Chris Tyler <chris at tylers.info> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 20:53 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> >> [0] We're making a "one time" incompatible ABI switch in F-15 bringup to
> >> the "hard float" ABI defined in section 6 of the ARM AAPCS (commonly
> >> referred to as the ARM EABI - but that doesn't actually exist as a
> >> name). The procedure call standard will be ARM AAPCS vfpv3-d16, as
> >> defined in section 6 of that document. Other distros are switching and
> >> this will form the basis of any LSB standardization effort later on.
> >> Think of v7 and v5 as being different arches, which they are really.
> >
> > And to further clarify:
> >
> > - This is an addition, not a switch -- the intention is to continue to
> > support armv5tel in addition to armv7hl at this time -- Tegra and
> > Marvell Kirkwood (including plug computer) devices which do not support
> > armv7hl will continue to work with armv5tel.
> 
> Err Tegra should be supported due to the use of vfpv3-d16? Correct?

(Trimming to ARM list only)

Tegra 2 and Tegra 3 are v7 (Cortex A9 MPcore) but the earlier Tegra
chips (Tegra APX, Tegra 6XX ) are v6 (ARM11).

-Chris