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Re: binutils patches for Cirrus/arm9e/maverick support
- To: philb at gnu dot org
- Subject: Re: binutils patches for Cirrus/arm9e/maverick support
- From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 12:21:29 +0100
- cc: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>, Nick Clifton <nickc at cambridge dot redhat dot com>, Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>, binutils <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>, Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com
- Organization: ARM Ltd.
- Reply-To: Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com
> In message <3BC33655.47390D36@redhat.com>, Jonathan Larmour writes:
> >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
>
> Mmm. Well, they seem to include CLPS7500FE in the "Maverick" family,
> and that pretty clearly doesn't support the DSP extensions that are at
> issue here. But if Cirrus haven't given the actual instruction set a
> name, using "maverick" to describe it is probably the best you can do.
>
> So: maverick-elf? Well, it might be nicer if all ARM-derived targets
> had names generally in the pattern arm*-*, and that would avoid any
> future embarrassment if Cirrus decide to expand the Maverick marketing
> name to, say, MIPS-based processors. But "armmaverick" is, if
> anything, even more ugly a name than "beamaverick".
>
> It doesn't really matter all that much anyway. Even something like
> "arm9m-elf" would probably be okay.
No, I think that sounds too much like the arm7[d]m, which indicated the
presence of the multiplier feature.
I'd go for maverick (in the same way as xscale or strongarm); but I'd
prefer to see something in the config files that noted that this was
simply an arm with some defaulted set of extensions TE_? (rather than
having to have a lot of additional config files lying around).
R.
Hm, now I'm going to have to port all that new code to my new parsing
routines...