By: anon (anon.delete@this.anon.anon), November 20, 2020 1:31 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
James (no.delete@this.thanks.invalid) on November 19, 2020 8:41 am wrote:
> gallier2 wrote:
> > It could be, for instance, be the opportunity to for once to talk about something else than Apple. :-)
>
> So did you know ARM are preparing Linux patches "to allow 32-bit ARM applications to run on arm64 SoCs
> where not all of the CPUs support the 32-bit instruction set"? And other people are following them up?
>
> James.
>
This at least is a bit easier because you're not allowed to mix 32-bit and 64-bit code, so the OS can see the arch as soon as a binary is launched. Bit harder for x86 and x86_64, I think.
> gallier2 wrote:
> > It could be, for instance, be the opportunity to for once to talk about something else than Apple. :-)
>
> So did you know ARM are preparing Linux patches "to allow 32-bit ARM applications to run on arm64 SoCs
> where not all of the CPUs support the 32-bit instruction set"? And other people are following them up?
>
> James.
>
This at least is a bit easier because you're not allowed to mix 32-bit and 64-bit code, so the OS can see the arch as soon as a binary is launched. Bit harder for x86 and x86_64, I think.
