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Jascha Geerds ffedc3e4a9 misc: Remove myself from list of maintainers
Unfortunately I don't have the time anymore to maintain those
packages.
2019-03-12 23:50:52 +01:00
Lluís Batlle i Rossell 66d7126255 Take me (viric) out of most maintenance
Since years I'm not maintaining anything of the list below other
than some updates when I needed them for some reason. Other people
is doing that maintenance on my behalf so I better take me out but
for very few packages. Finally!
2018-07-22 21:50:19 +02:00
John Ericson ba52ae5048 treewide: isArm -> isAarch32
Following legacy packing conventions, `isArm` was defined just for
32-bit ARM instruction set. This is confusing to non packagers though,
because Aarch64 is an ARM instruction set.

The official ARM overview for ARMv8[1] is surprisingly not confusing,
given the overall state of affairs for ARM naming conventions, and
offers us a solution. It divides the nomenclature into three levels:

```
ISA:             ARMv8   {-A, -R, -M}
                 /    \
Mode:     Aarch32     Aarch64
             |         /   \
Encoding:   A64      A32   T32
```

At the top is the overall v8 instruction set archicture. Second are the
two modes, defined by bitwidth but differing in other semantics too, and
buttom are the encodings, (hopefully?) isomorphic if they encode the
same mode.

The 32 bit encodings are mostly backwards compatible with previous
non-Thumb and Thumb encodings, and if so we can pun the mode names to
instead mean "sets of compatable or isomorphic encodings", and then
voilà we have nice names for 32-bit and 64-bit arm instruction sets
which do not use the word ARM so as to not confused either laymen or
experienced ARM packages.

[1]: https://developer.arm.com/products/architecture/a-profile
2018-04-25 15:28:55 -04:00
Peter Hoeg 8cef304ede libtoxcore: init at 0.1.6 and move old versions away 2017-02-14 14:57:48 +08:00
Renamed from pkgs/development/libraries/libtoxcore/new-api/default.nix (Browse further)