Re:An ARM killer from IIT-M?
by bsder on Monday November 13, 2017 @03:20PM
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> No byte load/store until, uh, EV56(?).
I believe that you can blame a MIPS patent for that, IIRC.
> And it's big endian, which per se isn't wrong in any way, you'll just be dealing with endian bugs forever and ever
Actually, that was one of the biggest benefits to porting Linux to Alpha. A HUGE number of assumptions got cleaned up. I suspect the current ARM ports of Linux would be almost a decade behind without that.
I believe that you can blame a MIPS patent for that, IIRC.
> And it's big endian, which per se isn't wrong in any way, you'll just be dealing with endian bugs forever and ever
Actually, that was one of the biggest benefits to porting Linux to Alpha. A HUGE number of assumptions got cleaned up. I suspect the current ARM ports of Linux would be almost a decade behind without that.