Thread: A faster N810??
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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
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 difference than x86, really.
I think it's more software related - you do do have a little more platform diversity which can give a little headache not usually present on most x86 - like endianness, uclibc, thumb related stuff, so it's not always that easy, but the general principle IS the same.
 

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