Subject: Re: Arm11 cores/Arm Archv6
To: Chris Gilbert <chris@dokein.co.uk>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-arm
Date: 12/08/2002 21:19:12
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 12:40:21AM +0000, Chris Gilbert wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone had seen the new Arm11 based system/board yet?
> Arm mentions them:
> http://www.arm.com/armtech/ARM11PrimeXsys
Are any ARM11-based processors actually available yet?
> I suspect that it would need a rewrite of a fair chunk of low level
> handling code to make the best use of it (yes it's that different
> according to the above doc, but is backward comptible) The pmap could
> really be reworked, as i think it's now using physical tagging in the
> cache.
Yah, It'll be a real joy to port to ARMv6.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>