--- wikisrc/ports/evbarm.mdwn 2017/10/10 10:43:51 1.41 +++ wikisrc/ports/evbarm.mdwn 2017/10/21 22:39:47 1.42 @@ -22,6 +22,17 @@ designs. Matt Thomas is the maintainer of NetBSD/evbarm. +### CPU types + +The evbarm port can be built with a variety of CPU options. There are +three main variables: the instruction set, the endianness, and whether +there is hardware flaoting point. By default the CPU type is "earm". + +Typically, various boards are best compiled with a CPU type that +matches the board's CPU and floating point support, but generally a +lower CPU instruction set version is workable on a newer board. See +build.sh and look for aliases for the evbarm port. + ### Board specific information - [[Allwinner sunxi family SoCs|Allwinner]] - [[BeagleBone and BeagleBone Black|BeagleBone]]