[Lazarus] Aarch64 as CPU target for RPi3 with Linux as OS

Bo Berglund bo.berglund at gmail.com
Thu Mar 3 12:33:16 CET 2016


On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 10:53:43 +0100, Michael Schnell
<mschnell at lumino.de> wrote:

>On 03/02/2016 05:09 PM, Michael Ring wrote:
>> AFAIK This is the default mode on RPi for now, same for ODroid C2, it 
>> also currently runs a64 cpu with a a32 kernel, 'real' 64bit support 
>> will come later.
>>
>So obviously the a64 hardware can run a32 code :-) .
>
>Hence I suppose an a64 Linux distribution will come with the ability to 
>run a32 user programs (but I did not yet read about this) .
>
That is what they say on the forum at least....
And they claim not so much is to be gained with 64 bit mode since RAM
is just 1GB (currently).


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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden





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