Off topic discussion • Re: Dream hardware

AFAIK 32-bit apps do NOT run on 64-bit linux.

No, they do run happily on the Pi 5 (Cortex-A76 CPU's) running Linux.
Only the kernel must be 64-bits, user programs may be either.
It is a fact of life for the ARM CPU hardware, nothing to do with Linux.

Later ARM CPU's mandate that everything must be 64-bits - whatever OS you might be running.

There are good reasons why ARM are doing this.

If you take the time to learn about ARM 64-bits (Aarch64) you will see that it is far far better than the 40 year old, obsolete, and grossly inefficient (on modern hardware) ARM 32-bit mode.

Statistics: Posted by jahboater — Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:19 am

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