ARMvX?

[Thomas Senyk]

On Tuesday, July 19, 2011 06:35:12 PM Thomas Senyk wrote:
> Sorry the last mail was not finished ;)
> 
> Again:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> at the contribute summit (or better the day before) we had some discussions
> about different arm version.
> 
> All I could find:
> There might be ARM11 devices:
> http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Shenzen- State-Micro-Technology/
> 
> using Samsung S3C6410
> 
> This is arm11 => armv6 => not armv7a
> ===> we want to keep support for armabi (without -v7a)
> right so far?
> (Although I'm not sure if the market share of those devices is even close to
> 1%)
> 
> 


After reading this again I find it confusion my self ;)
> But we can safely assume that every arm device will have fpu ... I haven't
> found anything with any old/smaller arm then ARM11(e.g. Xscale, ARM9)
>   ... although I not all ARM11 have VFP (aka. fpu, right?)
>   ... maybe all android devices have them... or not?
Again:
I would strongly suspect all Android devices to have VFP/FPU
... someone objects?

> 
> Any opinions?
> 
> ... maybe this is already been discussed/decisions made and I'm just not
> aware off :)
> 
> Greets
> Thomas
> 
> On Tuesday, July 19, 2011 06:19:22 PM Thomas Senyk wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> > 
> > at the contribute summit (or better the day before) we had some
> > discussions about different arm version.
> > 
> > All I could find:
> > There might be ARM11 devices with:
> > There is a Samsung device