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John Ericson b9acfb4ecf 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

(cherry picked from commit ba52ae5048)
2018-04-25 15:50:41 -04:00
.github CODEOWNERS: Make @orivej a {cc,bintools}-wrapper codeowner 2018-01-19 16:18:27 -05:00
doc lib, treewide: Add missing MIPS arches, and fix existing usage 2018-02-23 20:43:42 -05:00
lib treewide: isArm -> isAarch32 2018-04-25 15:50:41 -04:00
maintainers/scripts Revert "Revert "Convert maintainer file entries to attributes, add github handles"" 2018-03-04 05:13:19 +01:00
nixos treewide: isArm -> isAarch32 2018-04-25 15:50:41 -04:00
pkgs treewide: isArm -> isAarch32 2018-04-25 15:50:41 -04:00
.editorconfig Do not trim trailing whitespace in patch files 2017-01-12 23:44:26 +01:00
.gitignore kde5: consolidate packages into desktops/kde-5 2016-03-01 10:36:00 -06:00
.version Impala makes packaging a life-long addiction 2017-08-30 23:13:56 +02:00
COPYING 2018 will be the year of NixOS 2018-01-04 17:59:52 -05:00
default.nix default.nix: Provide correct instructions how to upgrade Nix 2017-03-18 21:04:07 +02:00
README.md README: Use HTTPS for all hyperlinks 2017-11-22 19:51:40 +01:00

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Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for the Nix package manager. It is periodically built and tested by the Hydra build daemon as so-called channels. To get channel information via git, add nixpkgs-channels as a remote:

% git remote add channels git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git

For stability and maximum binary package support, it is recommended to maintain custom changes on top of one of the channels, e.g. nixos-17.09 for the latest release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:

% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-17.09

For pull-requests, please rebase onto nixpkgs master.

NixOS Linux distribution source code is located inside nixos/ folder.

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