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Hey Tony!

 MK>> If not important then why did they release the raspi3 on a 64 bit
 MK>> SoC?

 TL> That avoided the question, add the words "to you?" at the end of
 TL> the question. :)

Ah!  Well then the answer lies in my question; If a 64 bit SoC then gosh darn
it the kernel/OS better be 64 bit and if not then it should be able to build
it's own 64 bitness else it isn't worth the power it consumes.

On that note I am currently trying to track down a legitimate howto-ish doc on
building a cross-compiler targetting a raspi3 using a x86_64 host.  I did build
one but after further investigation I am sure it doesn't work despite the fact
that it is successfully compiling runtimes and kernels it cannot run.  They
might work but sincee I lack the actual platform I am not very confident they
will.  Mind you that is what I thought about the first 64 bit enviroment I
built on the dual p3 system 15-ish years ago.

Hm.  The random tagline seems a tad ominous given the actual subject of this
message and not the part of the message that is labelled as such, although
there could end up being an issue there as well given the target's root/boot
disk.

Life is good,
Maurice

... Eall þæt mon untidlice onginþ, næfþ hit no æltæþne ende.
    Anything begun at the wrong time will never have a good end.
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