Re: ARM Fundamentals: Introduction to understanding ARM processors - ARM Community

2011-11-04 Thread Lucian Branescu
On 4 November 2011 21:11, Jonathan "Duke" Leto wrote: > Howdy, > >> After then, I'm not sure what the added instructions were for, but I suspect >> that they aren't going to be for things that JITs find useful. >> >> I'd suggest working out what ARM CPU architecture current Debian builds for, >> a

Re: ARM Fundamentals: Introduction to understanding ARM processors - ARM Community

2011-11-04 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 02:11:30PM -0700, Jonathan "Duke" Leto wrote: > Thanks for the good advice, Nick. I recently saw a shiny new ARM v7 netbook I wouldn't be confident that it's good advice until it's actually turned out to be useful :-) > being wielded at a conference. Does anybody on this

Re: ARM Fundamentals: Introduction to understanding ARM processors - ARM Community

2011-11-04 Thread Jonathan "Duke" Leto
Howdy, > After then, I'm not sure what the added instructions were for, but I suspect > that they aren't going to be for things that JITs find useful. > > I'd suggest working out what ARM CPU architecture current Debian builds for, > and doing that first. Then looking at what the later architectur

Re: ARM Fundamentals: Introduction to understanding ARM processors - ARM Community

2011-11-04 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 11:31:30AM -0700, Jonathan Duke Leto wrote: > Since ARM has so many permutations, I am not quite sure how we should keep > track of it. Currently I am thinking a table for a few different versions of > the ARM spec (like v1, v5, v9, Cortex-x, Cortex-y) or something like tha

ARM Fundamentals: Introduction to understanding ARM processors - ARM Community

2011-11-04 Thread Jonathan "Duke" Leto
Howdy, This is a nice intro to the ARM platform: http://blogs.arm.com/software-enablement/605-arm-fundamentals-introduction-to-understanding-arm-processors/ I am still in the process of helping cotto++ do research for M0. The above link is a good starting point for those that want to help. Basic