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Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi)

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The following bytes were arranged on 19 Apr 2012 by Chris Evans :

> The basic question is will all(?) those programs that needed updating from
> ARMv5 to ARMv7 also need to be updated for the Raspberry Pi?
>
> and therefore may some Iyonix compatible programs that haven't been updated
> work on the Raspberry without modification?

Sorry, but no.  The big change we usually talk about when we say "ARMv7
compatible" is the unaligned memory access problem, and that was
introduced in ARMv6 (but we had ARMv7 RISC OS computers before we had
ARMv6 ones, hence the ARMv7 name stuck).  As I understand it, the
differences between ARMv6 and ARMv7 are mainly to do with floating
point.

So if you were hoping for a free Raspberry Pi lunch - forget it!

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ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) Chris Evans <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> - 2012-04-19 13:05 +0100
  Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) Martin Bazley <martin.bazley@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2012-04-19 14:15 +0100
    Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) Chris Evans <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> - 2012-04-19 16:10 +0100
      Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-19 18:41 +0200
      Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2012-04-19 19:46 +0100
        Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-04-19 21:24 +0200
  Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-19 18:32 +0200
  Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) chrisbazley@bigfoot.com - 2012-04-29 06:37 -0700
    Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) Martin Bazley <martin.bazley@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2012-04-29 15:47 +0100
    Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) Gerph <gerph@gerph.org> - 2012-04-29 07:39 -0700
    Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2012-04-29 19:30 +0100
    Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-04-30 06:16 +0200
      Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2012-04-30 22:47 +0100
      Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) Gerph <gerph@gerph.org> - 2012-04-30 15:30 -0700
        Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-05-02 19:26 +0200
          Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) Gavin Wraith <gavin@wra1th.plus.com> - 2012-05-02 21:02 +0100
          Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2012-05-02 22:33 +0100
            Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) cferris@freeRemoveuk.com.invalid - 2012-05-02 23:37 +0100
              Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-05-03 06:25 +0200
              Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) trevj <trevj@cwazy.co.uk> - 2012-05-03 13:01 -0700
          Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-05-04 06:30 +0200
            Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-05-04 11:55 +0200
              Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-05-04 22:39 +0100
            Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-05-05 17:58 +0200
              Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2012-05-05 17:22 +0100
        Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) Simon <simon.willcocks@t-online.de> - 2012-05-04 04:24 -0700
      Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2012-05-01 21:33 +0100
        Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) Gerph <gerph@gerph.org> - 2012-05-01 17:06 -0700
        Re: ARMv5, ARMv6 & ARMv7 (Programs for the Raspberry Pi) Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-05-02 19:02 +0200

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