[Buildroot] command line regular expression substitution fails

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Jan 29 08:26:16 UTC 2014


Dear Arnout Vandecappelle,

On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 07:49:11 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

> > No, A8 and A9 are not the same from a floating point perspective.
> >
> > As visible in
> > http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/tree/arch/Config.in.arm#n91, NEON
> > and VFPv3 is mandatory on Cortex-A8, but optional on Cortex-A9.
> 
>   Yeah, but in that sense, Cortex-A9 is a subset or Cortex-A8 so if the 
> A8 code works, the A9 code should work as well - which is exactly the 
> reverse of what Ed saw.

Right. I must say I haven't followed all what Ed reported, I merely
replied on the question about A8/A9 floating point equivalence.

Thomas
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