Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:30:55 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port |
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> What if they add 64-bit ARM support to arch/x86? AFAIK some of the > machines are going to be basically PCs, including legacy I/O, ACPI > and UEFI, so they are much closer to that than they are to anything > in arch/arm. The instruction set of course is different, but you > already said that this doesn't matter.
ACPI5 doesn't require legacy I/O although I guess as before people will be reusing x86 components and might do so for hardware reasons.
Alan
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