Re: Arm64 port live on debian-ports
On 20 April 2014 15:30, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> 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.
>
> The repository at debian-ports is not yet complete enough for debootstrap,
> so you'd need Wookey's pre-made tarball or to steal some stuff from Ubuntu.
> That's enough to play with arm64, and to check if "does my crap build?".
>
http://qa.ubuntuwire.com/ftbfs/ is also a helpful page which lists
FTBFS in ubuntu, thus one quickly check if the package you are
interested in has built on arm64 in ubuntu.
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Regards,
Dimitri.
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