On 5/14/2015 2:12 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > You are correct, the Pi is not armv8. > > This is for larger devices ... although, there are now a some armv8 > embedded devices too. > > We SHOULD also have an armv7hl branch at some point too (we have just > really started working on that) ... and I think that will run on the > raspberry pi2 when done (though not the original). > > We are trying for large data center devices not cell phones:) I would assume there's more than JUST the CPU instruction set architecture at play here... system boot firmware, and IO device controller support must play a part in this? -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz