wraggster
February 27th, 2013, 23:04
With work done by ARM and Linaro, there is now a bootable image of Debian/Ubuntu that works for ARM64 (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTMxMzU), the new 64-bit ARM architecture. There are still some caveats and work ahead (http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/02/msg00413.html), but Linux is once again the first platform that has software ready to run on a new architecture when released. This 64-bit ARM Linux support also includes the ability to run 32-bit ARM software side-by-side."You can grab a bootable rootfs (http://wiki.debian.org/Arm64Port#Pre-built_Rootfs), but there's no hardware to actually run it on now (the developers are using the free-as-in-beer simulator from ARM). Kernel support for the architecture (http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1207.0/03025.html) was released around a year ago; this is more a tale of getting from a bootable kernel to a bootable operating system.
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/02/27/1330237/first-debianubuntu-bootable-arm64-images-released
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/02/27/1330237/first-debianubuntu-bootable-arm64-images-released