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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1398007837.19277.90.ca...@hastur.hellion.org.uk