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Re: binutils patches for Cirrus/arm9e/maverick support
Nick Clifton wrote:
>
> Hi Aldy,
>
> > > Good plan. Not only is "Maverick" far cooler-sounding than "arm9e", it
> > > seems less likely to be confused with ARM's own ARM9E product family.
>
> > so what do you all suggest for the triplet?
> >
> > armmaverick-elf?
> >
> > arm9maverick-elf?
>
> Hmm, well Cirrus just call it the "Maverick" so maybe that it what we
> should do too ? ie:
>
> maverick-elf
Actually the Maverick is a family of CPUs from Cirrus, of which only one is
at present an ARM9: http://beamaverick.com/sub.cfm?CategoryID=2
There may be future different ARM9 mavericks, so depending on the nature of
this support, arm9maverick may not be specific enough. It's probably right
though.
Jifl
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