Subject: Re: CPU IDs
To: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
From: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
List: port-arm32
Date: 01/05/2001 19:28:46
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> Here's some that are in the ARM ARM that I have
Thanks. I really must get an ARM ARM.
> Neither the 7500 nor the 7500FE data sheets seem to document the CPU id --
> Odd.
Yes. I think one of the data sheets I looked at even said that the ID
register was unpredicatable on read.
> The format of the ID register is quite complex, but it can be decoded with
> care. Here's what the ARM ARM says (I've tried to summarise a bit, since
> it is quite long)
Thanks. That lot all seems to fit the IDs I've got here, which is better
than anything else I've found.
> [19:16] Architecture code. Following values are currently defined, all
> others reserved.
> 0x1 ARMv4
> 0x2 ARMv4T
> 0x3 ARMv5
> 0x4 ARMv5T
The 80200 and the ARM966E-S rev. 1 seem to have 5 here. The 80200 claims
to implement ARMv5TE. Is that a sensible meaning for it?
--
Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26 <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>