On Sunday 20 January 2013 11:45 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 01/18/2013 04:24 AM, Vineet Gupta wrote: >> This patchset based off-of 3.8-rc4, adds the Linux kernel port to ARC700 >> processor family (750D and 770D) from Synopsys. I would be greatful for >> further review and feedback. > > One thing: ARC, as I understand it, is a whole family of architectures, which > mostly have in common their origin at Synopsys. ARC has had a long history - as a startup in 90's. There used to be ARCTanget Instruction set (and cores A4,A5... based on that) which 10 years ago got deprecated by current ARCompact ISA (600 / 700 cores). So yes it is a family of architectures - but all we care about is the ARCompact and 600/700 at Synopsys. However, I don't think there were sub-architectures or forks which floated around. The MIPS "ARC" seems to be some sort of firmware standard, but not related to ARC: Ralf would you care to shed some light ? I don't know of any ARC arch other than these. > Can we make this arch/arc700 > since that is what it is? > > -hpa > As of now yes, but in near future we may have a new Instruction Set and cores based on that - so it will be better if we keep a non specific name. Thx, -Vineet -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
