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ARM Publishes 64-bit "AArch64" Linux Kernel Support

Posted by timothy on from the avoiding-the-wrath-of-linus dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ARM Holdings has made available Linux kernel support for AArch64, the ARMv8 64-bit architecture. No 64-bit ARMv8 hardware is yet shipping until later this year, but ARM has prepared the 36 patches amounting to 23,000 lines of architecture code for mainline integration."

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  1. Awesome... 23k lines gives support to a new arch by IYagami · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think that what is really awesome is that adding just 23k lines of code gives you support for a new CPU architecture!