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	GeneralAntilles	2009-06-29 , 03:13
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Originally Posted by linuxeventually

I've had similar thoughts with my NAS but anything with an ARM architecture (and keep in mind pretty much all ARM processors are different so no compatibility) everything has to be compiled against that particular processor.

Hardly. armv5 binaries works just fine on armv7 CPUs. Backwards compatibility is strong, problems crop up when you try to use features on newer instruction sets (like the NEON SIMD available in armv7) on older hardware which does not provide the required features.

It's no different than x86, really.

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