Re: [gentoo-embedded] Gentoo port to Arm's A9?

[Bobby Ramsook]

The A9 is a multi core Arm processor.

Your question is whether linux would support the multicore abilities of the
A9 correct?
As far as I can tell the A9 is still an ARM processor regardless of the
multicore.
Please correct me if I am wrong on that.

Unfortunately, I have not had the opportunity to build linux on an Arm
Board.

On 10/20/07, wireless <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
>
> Heath Holcomb
> > This is more a question as weather the kernel, tool chain, and the
> > associated applications (glibc, gcc, busybox, etc...) needed for a
> > complete embedded linux OS have been ported to the ARM architecture.
> > For the most part linux is supported on the ARM architecture; I
> > believe that ARM9 is very well supported.
> >
> > ARM9 -> ARM11 -> cortex A8 -> A9 is the architecture progression; at
> > least I think it is.  Please correct me if this is wrong.
>
> OK,
>
>
> I'll restate my original question.
>
>
> Has anyone used gentoo or the embedded gentoo tool chain to build from
> sources a linux kernel that runs on the brand new A9 chip? Is anyone
> working on the A9?
>
> Does anyone have any plans to use gentoo to build a working
> A9 linux kernel?
>
> The A9 is not an Arm9 chip, it's the latest processor in the
> new line of Arm's multi processor line.  Yes it has many similarities
> to the Arm 9 as alluded to above. There is also a single core
> version of the A9.
>
>
>
> http://www.arm.com/products/CPUs/ARMCortex-A9_MPCore.html
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