A question to somenoe 'on the inside':
On the 'Platforms' panel we get:
Instruction sets: ARMV4
When the 'real deal' gets here, will there be some other goodies like
Mips and SH3...
Thanks
- John
About other processor support in VS8 could you say if:
A) They havn't decided.
B) They havn't informed us.
It affect development decisions.
Thanks
- John
I would like to be able to build for Smartphones that use Mips and SH3.
Perhaps these processors are already there and I just don't have my VS set up properly.
All I see is the ARM4.
Is there something I need to do to get other processors to show up as viable targets?
Thanks again,
- John
That won't be necessary as all SmartPhones running Microsoft OS are ARM based.
That is, no MIPS or SH3 SmartPhones. All supported Pocket PCs are also ARM based. CPUs other than ARM are supported, but only on custom CE platforms.
Has it always been this way, and true for Windows Mobile 2002, 2003 and 2003SE?
Has the ARM and derivitives always been the only supported platform?
BTW - how did you find this out, is it in the docs, on the Windows Mobile site or just common knowledge I completly missed?
Thanks again.
- John
Yes, it's true for 2002, 2003, 2003SE and WM 05.
This it NOT true for PPC 2000 (and older), but it's long gone.
Custom CE can run on various processors as well.
WM 05 is ARMV4I flavor, others are ARMV4. ARMV4I can run ARMV4 code directly.
It is a common knowledge (though I work for Microsoft and know that first hand). See this for example:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wcepbguide5/html/wce51conProcessorTypeReference.asp Note emulator is x86, but devices are all ARM. VS 2005 has ARM emulator.
