Subj : Raspbian 64
To   : Kees van Eeten
From : Alexey Vissarionov
Date : Sun May 31 2020 20:11:02

Good ${greeting_time}, Kees!

30 May 2020 12:02:00, you wrote to me:

 AV>> gremlin@pi4:~ > rpm -q kernel-{image,modules,dts}-rpi4
 AV>> kernel-image-rpi4-5.6.14-alt1.aarch64
 AV>> kernel-modules-rpi4-5.6.14-alt1.aarch64
 AV>> kernel-dts-rpi4-5.6.14-alt1.noarch
 KvE> I know there are 64bit implementations by other distributions.

I don't give a fuck for those distributions. I have the hardware and I need getting Linux to run on it - so that I do.

 KvE> But the Raspberry people held on to 32bit, to enable uniform
 KvE> software on all there models.

The software is either easily rebuilt for any other arch (like ARM64) or is proprietary (and, in general, should not be used at all).

 KvE> Now they have given in to the pressure for a 64bit Raspbian, that
 KvE> is what I wanted to transmit.

Who cares of Raspbian? It's just a PoS...

For now, we even have 3D video working in a 64-bit mode. Anyone else? :-)


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