ARMvX?

Thomas Senyk thomas.senyk at nokia.com
Tue Jul 19 18:54:04 CEST 2011


Ok seams someone makes a ARM9 device:
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/WonderMedia-SmartTouch-tablets/


... Anyone with inside to cheaper markets?
How relevant is Android-ARM9?



On Tuesday, July 19, 2011 06:38:53 PM Thomas Senyk wrote:
> 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


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