From owner-freebsd-arm Mon Jan 1 17:45:58 2001 From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 1 17:45:57 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBCDC37B400 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 17:45:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (Ipitythefoolthattrustsident@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA78938 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 17:45:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f021jtj29521 for freebsd-arm@freebsd.org; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 17:45:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 17:45:55 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: name for sys/ Message-ID: <20010101174554.A29489@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: obrien@NUXI.com Sender: owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith suggested `arm32', but upon reading http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm32/ : There is really no such thing as `an arm32.' The first ARM processors (ARM2 and ARM3) were designed by Acorn, and had both 26 bit constraints and poor MMUs. These processors are supported by NetBSD/arm26. Acorn later spun off ARM with Apple and VLSI. ARM's CPUs (6, 7, 8, 9 and StrongARM) were fully 32-bit and are supported by NetBSD/arm32. I am back to wondering what to call this beast. I don't think we should carry forward `arm32' if it is an artificial name. GNU autoconf refers to it simply as `arm', but I kinda like `strongarm' since that make it perfectly clear what CPUs we are supporting. Opinions? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arm" in the body of the message