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Re: British computing

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From: jsevans@sdf.org
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Subject: Re: British computing
Date: Sat, 22 May 2021 18:39:22 -0000 (UTC)
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by: jsevans@sdf.org - Sat, 22 May 2021 18:39 UTC

On 2021-04-18, Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:
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> I'm not a Pi expert, but if Wikipedia is to be trusted, the
> recent use an Armv8 processor with 64 bit capability, at least.
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> I don't see why 64-bit Linux would not run on that machine.

I'm literally writing this on a RPI4 running openSUSE Tumbleweed for ARM64

$ uname -a
Linux 5.12.3-1-default SMP Wed May 12 09:01:49 UTC 2021aarch64 GNU/Linux

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From: kristof@iceland.freeshell.org (Kristof Korwisi)
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Subject: Re: British computing
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by: Kristof Korwisi - Sat, 22 May 2021 19:04 UTC

On 2021-05-22, jsevans@sdf.org <jsevans@sdf.org> wrote:
> On 2021-04-18, Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:
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>> I'm not a Pi expert, but if Wikipedia is to be trusted, the
>> recent use an Armv8 processor with 64 bit capability, at least.
>>
>> I don't see why 64-bit Linux would not run on that machine.
>
> I'm literally writing this on a RPI4 running openSUSE Tumbleweed for ARM64

Even the predecessor (3B+) is already capable of running 64 bit systems
as well. Running NetBSD on mine.

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by: gareth evans - Sat, 22 May 2021 21:59 UTC

On 22/05/2021 19:39, jsevans@sdf.org wrote:
> On 2021-04-18, Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:
>>
>> I'm not a Pi expert, but if Wikipedia is to be trusted, the
>> recent use an Armv8 processor with 64 bit capability, at least.
>>
>> I don't see why 64-bit Linux would not run on that machine.
>
> I'm literally writing this on a RPI4 running openSUSE Tumbleweed for ARM64

.... and does that give you full access to all the I/O that you
get with the 32-bit Raspbian, especially all the video capability?

Subject	Author
Re: British computing	jsevans
Re: British computing	Kristof Korwisi
Re: British computing	gareth evans