[Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue Mar 1 22:26:45 UTC 2016


On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 03:20:03PM +0000, Michael Howard wrote:
> Just to let you know, I can't get this to work. aarch64 is supposed
> to be binary compatible, with the correct libraries installed, but
> I'm thinking the cpu isn't.
> 
> All I get is 'cannot execute binary file: Exec format error',
> regardless  of what I try.

As I understand it the problem is page size - 64K was chosen by
Red Hat for aarch64, where as 4K is the norm on armv7.

Anyway, you can run a 32 bit VM and it works well -- in fact a lot
faster than regular 32 bit armv7 hardware.

Rich.

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