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MartinK is offline MartinK
2016-09-05 , 21:45
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#65
Originally Posted by r0kk3rz View Post
The newer series stuff is all 64bit ARM which is currently problematic for sailfish porting, but work is being done to get that sorted though so it might be worth a risk.
Can't all the current 64-bit ARM CPUs still run armv7 32-bit code just fine in backward compatibility mode ? IIRC even the RPi3 still runs 32-bit code on it's 64-bit ARM CPU.

So while it indeed is prudent to aim for running 64-bit Sailfish OS natively, it should be fine for the time being due to the backwards compatibility mode & IMHO should not preclude 64-bit ARM CPUs from consideration.
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