Re: Arm64 port live on debian-ports
On Sun, 2014-04-20 at 17:08 +0200, Florian Weimer 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, but that'll be changing rapidly later
> > this year and this port will start to become quite important.
>
> What's our stance with regards to the ARM server platform? Will we
> support it, exclusively or in addition to the countless competing
> architectures (similar to Apple's approach) that seem likely to show
> up?
I suppose it'll be whatever people are willing to do the work for. My
gut says that'll be SBSA compliant (aka "server") stuff as well as the
more varied non-server stuff...
> (In some sense, the standardization seems the more significant change
> for ARM than the 32/64 switch.)
Indeed.
Ian.
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