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]. 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1398007725.19277.88.ca...@hastur.hellion.org.uk
