On Sun, 2014-04-20 at 16:28 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Sun, 2014-04-20 at 16:13 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > 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. > > AIUI qemu 2.0 only does qemu-aarch64-user, with the system emulation > portion slated to be merged shortly[0]. Oh, never mind then. > That said I can't see any reason not to get started on an arm64 kernel. > > Ian. > > [0] https://plus.google.com/+RikuVoipio/posts/gNkCrPosadW Actually, we previously discussed this in <https://bugs.debian.org/695241> and at that point the lack of klibc (for initramfs) was a blocker. According to <https://bugs.debian.org/698018> that's fixed upstream but not yet in Debian. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered an expert.
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