Re: earmv4 packages coming soon

Michael <[email protected]> Sat, 14 May 2022 14:30:54 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.arm,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.hpcarm
Organization	The NetBSD Foundation
Message-ID	<20220514143054.7a4ca3fc@bushmills>

Hello,

On Sat, 14 May 2022 19:13:15 +0100
David Brownlee <[email protected]> wrote:

> IIRC it was StrongARM (v4) vs XScale (v5), I think there were a fair
> number of Thumb additions... but I think the main difference is v5
> added VFPv2 which is handy for floating point.

IIRC the main difference is that strongarm doesn't have thumb and one
or two other instructions. And the one, lonely xscale I have here
doesn't have an FPU either.

Fun fact - we used shark binaries to get X going on the first Raspberry
Pi, before we got earmv6hf.

have fun
Michael