[PATCH v4 00/14] An alternative series for asymmetric AArch32 systems

Pavel Machek pavel at ucw.cz
Sat Dec 5 15:43:01 EST 2020


On Tue 2020-11-24 15:50:25, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hello folks,
> 
> Here's version four of the wonderful patches I previously posted here:
> 
>   v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201027215118.27003-1-will@kernel.org
>   v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201109213023.15092-1-will@kernel.org
>   v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201113093720.21106-1-will@kernel.org
> 
> and which started life as a reimplementation of some patches from Qais:
> 
>   https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201021104611.2744565-1-qais.yousef@arm.com
> 
> The aim of this series is to allow 32-bit ARM applications to run on
> arm64 SoCs where not all of the CPUs support the 32-bit instruction set.
> Unfortunately, such SoCs are real and will continue to be productised
> over the next few years at least.

Out of curiosity, what systems are that?

Is the 32-bit available on the big or on the little cores?

And... fun way to accelerate demise of arm32 :-).

Best regards,
									Pavel
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