Re: [PATCH] ARM: remove ARM710 specific assembler code

[Paul Bolle]

On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 13:55 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> There was a CPU called the ARM710, it was ARMv3 and it had no Thumb support.
> 
> There is also a CPU called the ARM710T, which is ARMv4 and has Thumb support.
> 
> These are two completely different CPUs, the former was removed along with
> the removal of ARMv3 support.  The latter remains because we still support
> ARMv4.

Thanks for taking the time to explain this. Next time I hope to be more
aware of the possibility of important differences between ARM CPUs that
have rather similar names.


Paul Bolle

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