Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:14:16 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@dmlb.org> Cc: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>, Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: do we have support for the Beagle Board? Message-ID: <86r600uxrr.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <49DE5489.5060201@dmlb.org> (Duncan Barclay's message of "Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:03:21 %2B0100") References: <49DD0DD2.8080806@telenix.org> <20090409085601.b54eb5y31ckwcwww@0x20.net> <49DDB2DA.9090409@unsane.co.uk> <49DE2449.8050007@telenix.org> <49DE5489.5060201@dmlb.org>
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Duncan Barclay <dmlb@dmlb.org> writes: > The DSP is not a Cortex, it's the 64x series of TI DSP. The Cortex is > Arm's latest CPU. Arm instruction sets are labeled as ArmV5, V6, V7 > etc. Then, Arm develop CPU cores that implement these: > ArmV5 ARM9xx such as an Arm926 processor > ArmV6 ARM1176 CPUs > ArmV7 ARM Cortex-A8, Cortex-A9s etc. > These core's are then licensed to chip manufacturers for them to use. So why didn't they just use a TI DaVinci or DaVinci HD? It's an ARMv5 core and a 64x DSP on a single chip, with something like 2 MB of shared SRAM. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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