Details about the ARMv7 Project

I had a great time talking to Chris Tyler yesterday about the ARMv7 Project. He explained the tests needed for the project and briefly contrasted ARMv5 & ARMv7.

My project details include:
-Working on the cdot-beagleXM-0-3 host
-Study the make command and the gcc compiler
-Compile software under ARMv7

Just a quick info:
cdot-beagleXM-0-3 is an ARMv7 board that tests ARMv5 architecture builds. What does that mean?? I can't think of any good analogy but this.. It's like running an old PC game on a NEW computer. It will work, but without the enhanced features on.
With that said, my project will try to test if the technologies in ARMv7 provide significant performance difference against ARMv5.

BeagleBoard XM image

More About ARM and BeagleBoard
BeagleBoardXM
List of ARM processors
Supporting Architectures above armv5tel Project Page