[CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS-7 disk images for AArch64 Platforms

Thu May 14 21:46:21 UTC 2015
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 05/14/2015 04:19 PM, Always Learning wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 13:51 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
>> On 5/14/2015 1:39 PM, Always Learning wrote:
>>> Does this mean it may be possible to run basic version of C5, C6 and C7
>>> on Arm64* CPU systems ?  Presumably this will include the Raspberry Pi ?
> 
>> is the rasberry pi ARMv8 (arm64) ?  I thought it was v7 (32bit only)
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Raspberry Pi 2 Model B is the second generation Raspberry Pi.
> A 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU
> 128-bit AMBA® 4 AXI bus interface. 
> 
> The Cortex-A7 processor builds on the energy-efficient 8-stage pipeline
> of the Cortex-A5 processor. .... with 64-bit load-store path, 128-bit
> AMBA 4 AXI buses and increased TLB size (256 entry, up from 128
> entry ....
> 
> ARMv7-A
> 
> The MPE extends the Cortex-A7 processor's FPU to provide a quad-MAC and
> additional 64-bit and 128-bit register set supporting a rich set of SIMD
> operations over 8, 16 and 32-bit integer and 32-bit Floating-Point data
> quantities.
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Except for the above, can't find any specific mentioned of 32 or 64 bit
> CPU.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Cores

ARMv7-A is 32 bit .. We are currently building for some of the listed
ARMv8-A systems with our AArch64 architecture.


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