On 2017-09-14 12:58 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Wookey, could you add something about the motivation for arm64ilp32 to > the wiki page about it? Will do. But the short version is that it's only useful if you need to run 32-bit code on hardware that only supports the 64-bit execution mode. Such hardware does exist (Cavium ThunderX), and it can't run armhf. It's not clear if more manufacturers will make such chips. And then you need a reason to run as 32-bit, but where you can rebuild code. So it's no use for old binaries, but it is useful for codebases that are not 64-bit safe. There might be arguments about memory usage (as for x32) where 32-bit makes sense, but I've not seen any data on that. As of today (about 3 hours ago :-), there is an ILP32 debian stable debootrappable set of packages, so it's possible to do said tests. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
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