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>