Hello, 2010/7/15, Konstantinos Margaritis <mar...@genesi-usa.com>: > First, 'cortex' is not a vendor. it's a cpu family. It's not owned by > Marvell > or Qualcomm, but by ARM, if they are OK with us using the name, I don't see > why the other companies would mind, esp. if they don't offer a cpu in that > particular family. Our targets are Cortex A8/A9-class cpus, with at least > vfpv3 and possibly NEON - we'll provide a separate repository with NEON > binaries where that seems appropriate. So, if Marvell/Qualcomm do provide > Cortex A8/A9-type cpus -I don't know really, I'm not following all cpu > models > from every company- then I don't see a problem. If not, then the port would > probably not work on those cpus from these companies anyway. Plain 'armel' > could/should be used in that case.
I personally like 'cortex' as it is much clear. Nowadays we still have users that ask what they should use 'arm' or 'armel' and what are their differences. Cheers, -- Héctor Orón "Our Sun unleashes tremendous flares expelling hot gas into the Solar System, which one day will disconnect us." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikarwjjvjqnjl7c3ws50tszh3jryaribpxh3...@mail.gmail.com
