[Buildroot] ARM cores

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:08:49 +0100
Eric BENARD <ebenard at free.fr> wrote:

> NEON (and VFP) is a feature of cortex A8 :
> http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a8.php
> 
> It's optional on A5 & A9 but not on A8.

Yes, sorry. I've given the example of Marvell Dove and Nvidia Tegra 2,
which presumably are Cortex-A9. But it doesn't change my initial
comment: if the user says "I'm using Cortex A9", it's not enough to
decide whether you can use NEON or not.

Regards,

Thomas
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