[Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0

Tue Mar 1 22:32:23 UTC 2016
Michael Howard <mike at dewberryfields.co.uk>

On 01/03/2016 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.
>
> Anyway, you can run a 32 bit VM and it works well -- in fact a lot
> faster than regular 32 bit armv7 hardware.
>

Yes, with CONFIG_ARM64_4K_PAGES=y and CONFIG_COMPAT=y, 32 bit binaries 
run fine.

-- 
Mike Howard