On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 05:11:16PM -0500, Matt Sealey wrote: > It's ARM's architecture and theirs to license, not Marvell's or Qualcomm's. > > Qualcomm won't be so particularly annoyed as they get a big reference > in ARM's manuals (Qualcomm Scorpion is referenced). > > In the end by far the most common (in terms of chips using it) variant > of armv7 is the cortex series. If another manufacturer uses their ARM > license to make a new core design that is compatible, good for them. > That doesn't stop the official armv7-a/r/m line being Cortex, and for > the vast majority of people out there to consistently compare the > armv7 designs they make to the capabilities of the "standard" ARM > Cortex designs.
Oh I hadn't realized cortex was an ARM name for that particular feature set. In that case I can see how it makes lots of sense as the name. I for some stupid reason thought that was a product name of some ARM licensee. -- Len Sorensen -- 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/20100714222114.gu2...@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
