Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/24] generalize parsing of cpu_model (part 4)

[Peter Maydell]

On 18 January 2018 at 15:31, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> wrote:
> I disagree on this, since userland binaries are compiled for a specific
> arch/ABI/FPU.
> Even without worrying about the FPU, it is unlikely the "any" cpu can
> run indifferently ARMv6 and ARMv7 binaries.

In practice this works fine. Generally for userspace the Arm
architecture retains backwards compatibility. (This is not the
case for kernel mode, obviously.)

thanks
-- PMM