Re: [PATCH 00/36] AArch64 Linux kernel port

[Alan Cox]

> What if they add 64-bit ARM support to arch/x86? AFAIK some of the
> machines are going to be basically PCs, including legacy I/O, ACPI
> and UEFI, so they are much closer to that than they are to anything
> in arch/arm. The instruction set of course is different, but you
> already said that this doesn't matter.

ACPI5 doesn't require legacy I/O although I guess as before people will
be reusing x86 components and might do so for hardware reasons.

Alan
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