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