[Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0

[Gordan Bobic]

On 2016-03-02 10:12, Michael Howard wrote:
> On 02/03/2016 09:58, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>> On 2016-03-01 22:26, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 
>> I shall leave this link here without further comment, regarding
>> using pages that are bigger than 4KB:
>> http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/page_sizes.html
>> 
> 
> Yes, I read that before I reconfigured the kernel, it makes interesting 
> reading.
> 
> My needs require me to run 32 bit binaries on my mp30-ar0 (at least in
> the short to medium term) so I'll use my modified kernel and 4KB
> pages.

Same here. And the MP30-AR0 just made my shopping list with this case
covered. :)

And I say that as a "database person", as per Linus' reference in
that link.

Gordan