ARM64/AArch64 Support Going Into Linux 3.7 Kernel

[phoronix]

Phoronix: ARM64/AArch64 Support Going Into Linux 3.7 Kernel

The Linux 3.7 kernel will feature support for the ARM 64-bit architecture (ARM64), which is officially known as AArch64...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE5NjQ

[wargames]

<troll> Excellent, now we can finally deprecate x86 </troll>

[sturmflut]

I think ARM is finally going to rock with ARMv8/AArch64. They finally standarized the boot process and settled on Flattened Device Tree, obsoleting the need for a specialized kernel binary for every ARM board. A single operating system instance can finally adress more than 4 GB of RAM. It is still backwards-compatbile with AArch32. They even ported Xen.

AArch32 had too many limitations for larger environments, but AArch64 looks pretty good.