Posted Aug 26, 2012 4:05 UTC (Sun) by theICEBear (subscriber, #23193)
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It does and AArch64 is not far away, given rate of change within the mobile/pad fad-driven world the new chips will start hitting market sooner rather than later.
Link-time optimization for the kernel
Posted Aug 27, 2012 20:01 UTC (Mon) by stevenb (guest, #11536)
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I was thinking more of 32-bits Atom.
ARM Thumb wouldn't have many registers either, but I don't know whether you could (or could want to) build an ARM Thumb linux kernel.
Link-time optimization for the kernel
Posted Aug 30, 2012 19:20 UTC (Thu) by cibervicho (subscriber, #52552)
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ARM Thumb wouldn't have many registers either, but I don't know whether you could (or could want to) build an ARM Thumb linux kernel.
Thumb and Thumb-2 have as many registers as ARM (32-bit). You can build a Thumb-2 kernel with CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL=y