Re: Broadcom BCM2709, ARMv8, and missing CPU features
Huh? I thought they claimed they were interchangeable. I had an
image from my model B days 3 years ago that I booted on my 3B. And I
cloned a working current 3B SD card and booted a Zero from it. There
isn't a different Debian image for every brand of motherboard and CPU,
they probe to see what hardware is there. I wouldn't expect older
images to contain drivers for newer hardware maybe.
I guess I wouldn't make too much of the jump to 64 bit just yet. I
remember when i386 jumped to 32 bit. 16 bit had a messy segmented
memory addressing scheme I was glad to get away from. I can't afford
more than 32 bits worth of RAM anyway, especially since I've usually
got about 4 machines running.
On 7/28/16, Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org> wrote:
> Alan Corey dijo [Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 01:28:31PM -0400]:
>> > 64-bit/ARMv8 on the RPi3 is still in progress.
>>
>> Yes, so they claim and I wonder how they're going to deal with the
>> fact that some Pis are 32 bit and some 64. I posted this question
>> there but I haven't looked into the links in the response a lot:
>> https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=154497&p=1010500#p1010500
>
> It should not be that much of a deal — After all, images for the
> different generations of Raspberries are not interchangable — A RPi1
> won't boot a RPi2 image, nor viceversa. Of course, the earlier
> generations could share all compiled binaries, while now it won't be
> the case (when it actually runs 64, that is).
>
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