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

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sat Dec 05 2020 - 15:43:46 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx
> v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201109213023.15092-1-will@xxxxxxxxxx
> v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201113093720.21106-1-will@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> and which started life as a reimplementation of some patches from Qais:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201021104611.2744565-1-qais.yousef@xxxxxxx
>
> 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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