Re: binutils patches for Cirrus/arm9e/maverick support

[philb at gnu dot org]

In message <3BC33655.47390D36@redhat.com>, Jonathan Larmour writes:
>Actually the Maverick is a family of CPUs from Cirrus, of which only one is
>at present an ARM9: http://beamaverick.com/sub.cfm?CategoryID=2

Mmm.  Well, they seem to include CLPS7500FE in the "Maverick" family,
and that pretty clearly doesn't support the DSP extensions that are at
issue here.  But if Cirrus haven't given the actual instruction set a
name, using "maverick" to describe it is probably the best you can do.

So: maverick-elf?  Well, it might be nicer if all ARM-derived targets
had names generally in the pattern arm*-*, and that would avoid any
future embarrassment if Cirrus decide to expand the Maverick marketing
name to, say, MIPS-based processors.  But "armmaverick" is, if
anything, even more ugly a name than "beamaverick".

It doesn't really matter all that much anyway.  Even something like
"arm9m-elf" would probably be okay.

p.