Re: [ARMini-support] Occasional crashes

  • From: Steve Fryatt <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: armini-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 10:11:28 +0000

On 24 Dec, John Norris wrote in message
    <644df57a54.John@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> In message <mpro.nh2anm0f79xii025g.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>           Steve Fryatt <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > I remain convinced that it's the Panda itself which is hiccuping.
> 
> > I'm afraid that (in the sense I think you mean) seems unlikely. The
> > problem is almost certainly code: remember that the Pi has a totally
> > different generation of ARM processor to the Panda, and has fewer traps
> > for legacy code (because its instruction set is older). That by itself
> > will almost certainly make the Pi seem more stable, as it contains fewer
> > potential incompatibilities for code which hasn't been updated.
>
> I'm not sure I've quite understood this. Is it the Pi that has the older
> instruction set, as implied, or the Panda?

The Pi, obviously: it has the older generation processor of the two.

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