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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
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admin Merge branch 'master' 2018-03-05 14:53:27 +01:00
archivers xarchiver: depend on hicolor_icon_theme 2018-02-28 16:56:27 -03:00
audio abcmidi: 2018.02.07 -> 2018.02.22 2018-03-02 23:06:48 +01:00
backup burp 2.1.28 -> 2.1.30 2018-03-04 17:05:32 +00:00
bluetooth openobex: 1.7.1 -> 1.7.2 2018-02-28 11:32:38 +01:00
bootloaders/refind refind: 0.10.3 -> 0.11.2 2018-01-09 22:57:04 -05:00
cd-dvd dvdisaster: Fix sse2 logic for cross and improved meta.platforms 2018-03-12 18:55:41 -04:00
compression advancecomp: 2.0 -> 2.1 2018-02-24 14:16:49 -08:00
filesystems treewide: Make shouldUsePackages copypasta use meta.available 2018-03-12 18:55:41 -04:00
graphics treewide: get rid of platforms.allBut 2018-03-14 18:44:42 -04:00
inputmethods Merge branch 'master' 2018-03-05 14:53:27 +01:00
misc treewide: get rid of platforms.allBut 2018-03-14 18:44:42 -04:00
nagstamon nagstamon: init at 2.0.1 2017-06-01 19:32:06 +02:00
networking treewide: isArm -> isAarch32 2018-04-25 15:50:41 -04:00
nix/info nix-info: build locally 2018-01-21 14:09:35 +01:00
package-management Merge branch 'master' into nix-2.0 2018-03-03 18:02:35 +01:00
security Merge branch 'master' 2018-03-05 14:53:27 +01:00
system treewide: isArm -> isAarch32 2018-04-25 15:50:41 -04:00
text Merge branch 'master' 2018-03-05 14:53:27 +01:00
typesetting tex4ht: obsoleted by tex4ht in texlive 2018-03-02 11:56:45 +01:00
video untrunc: init at 2018.01.13 2018-03-01 20:30:48 +01:00
virtualization awsebcli: clean up derivation 2018-02-28 10:10:05 +10:30
X11 libGL rename: fallout after a week on master 2018-03-05 14:53:38 +01:00