<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 24, 2016, at 4:21 PM, Phil Blundell <<a href="mailto:pb@pbcl.net" class="">pb@pbcl.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">On Thu, 2016-03-24 at 15:22 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:</span><blockquote type="CITE" style="font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><pre class=""><font color="#737373" class="">> On Mar 24, 2016, at 11:32 AM, Phil Blundell <<a href="mailto:pb@pbcl.net" class="">pb@pbcl.net</a>> wrote:</font>
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<font color="#737373" class="">> On Thu, 2016-03-24 at 10:37 -0700, Andre McCurdy wrote:</font>
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<font color="#737373" class="">>> Renaming armv8a -> aarch32 is going to affect almost every line in</font>
<font color="#737373" class="">>> the patch. We should probably drop the current patch from master-</font>
<font color="#737373" class="">>> next.</font>
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<font color="#737373" class="">> "AArch32" applies retrospectively to all older versions of the ARM</font>
<font color="#737373" class="">> architecture as well,</font>
not really. Arm refers to aarch32 specifically when we use 32-bit on ARMv8
so atleast we are speaking same terms.
</pre></blockquote><br style="font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">See the glossary at:</span><br style="font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.aeg0014g/ABCDEFGH.html" style="font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.aeg0014g/ABCDEFGH.html</a><br style="font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><i style="font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 14px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">AArch32 state</i><span style="font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""></span><dl style="font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">The ARM 32-bit Execution state that uses 32-bit general purpose registers, and a 32-bit program counter (PC), stack pointer (SP), and link register (LR). AArch32 Execution state provides a choice of two instruction sets, A32 and T32.<br class=""><br class="">In implementations of versions of the ARM architecture before ARMv8, and in the ARM R and M architecture profiles, execution is always in AArch32 state.<br class=""></dl></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>I am not saying its any different technically. But aarch32 as term is only used w.r.t. armv8</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><dl style="font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></dl><span style="font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">p.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>