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Re: Arm64 port live on debian-ports



On Sun, 2014-04-20 at 16:30 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 02:27:01AM +0100, Wookey wrote:
> > You may or may not have noticed that 'arm64' is coming. This a 64-bit
> > arm architecture also known as 'aarch64' and implemented in the ARM
> > CPU architecture 'v8'. Apart from iphones there is no publically
> > available 64-bit silicon yet
> 
> qemu 2.0, which has just been uploaded to unstable, supports arm64.
> Aside for usual threading caveats, it's good enough for most porting,
> unlike mythical hardware no one but Wookey has seen.
[...]

Given that, it seems like a good time to add arm64 to src:linux with a
configuration that will run on at least a typical QEMU ARM64 emulation.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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