Re: [pkg-mono-group] Wanted: superstar hacker to complete Mono port to armhf
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 3:11 PM, John Masseria wrote:
> But does this mean that armhf will move from ARMv7 to ARMv8?
armhf will remain as-is and we will also add an arm64 port:
https://wiki.debian.org/Arm64Port
http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/architecture.php?a=arm64&suite=sid
> Or is ARMv7 upward compatible with ARMv8, meaning an ARMv8 processor can
> natively run ARMv7 compiled binaries?
ARMv8 processors are dual-mode and can run ARMv7 code:
http://www.arm.com/products/processors/armv8-architecture.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#ARMv8_and_64-bit
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pabs
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