[Gllug] Zaurus and Debian

Chris Bell chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Mon Feb 3 18:46:30 UTC 2003


On Mon 03 Feb, Richard Cohen wrote:
> 

> 
> >From what I know from the iPAQ world, this is not the case.  Apps may be
> *recompiled* to gain a little extra performance, but any app (excluding the
> kernel and similarly low-level things) which runs on a StrongARM should
> work, unchanged, on an XScale.

   I understand that the StrongARM and earlier ARM chips did not use all 32
bits for instructions, but the XScale series does. I do not know whether
this affects backwards compatibility.

-- 
Chris Bell


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