From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757424AbaEPOup (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2014 10:50:45 -0400 Received: from cpsmtpb-ews03.kpnxchange.com ([213.75.39.6]:58914 "EHLO cpsmtpb-ews03.kpnxchange.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757109AbaEPOun (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2014 10:50:43 -0400 Message-ID: <1400251841.20342.50.camel@x220> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: remove ARM710 specific assembler code From: Paul Bolle To: Russell King Cc: Arnd Bergmann , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 16:50:41 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20140516125545.GO3693@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1364507176.1345.45.camel@x61.thuisdomein> <8309592.drxAj71PnZ@wuerfel> <1400059550.31197.12.camel@x220> <4305975.PvMXZQ020k@wuerfel> <1400232598.20342.16.camel@x220> <20140516125545.GO3693@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.10.4 (3.10.4-2.fc20) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 May 2014 14:50:41.0387 (UTC) FILETIME=[354383B0:01CF7116] X-RcptDomain: vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 13:55 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > There was a CPU called the ARM710, it was ARMv3 and it had no Thumb support. > > There is also a CPU called the ARM710T, which is ARMv4 and has Thumb support. > > These are two completely different CPUs, the former was removed along with > the removal of ARMv3 support. The latter remains because we still support > ARMv4. Thanks for taking the time to explain this. Next time I hope to be more aware of the possibility of important differences between ARM CPUs that have rather similar names. Paul Bolle