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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. Re:Well done by beelsebob · · Score: 0, Troll

    Pity that windows isn't open sourced, they wont benefit from this effort ;-)

    Ahahahahaahahaha, you honestly think ARM didn't already code windows support and give the code to MS?
    AHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAH!