On 29/05/2020 15:15, Scott Alfter wrote:
> In article ,
> Gareth Evans   wrote:
>> On 28/05/2020 11:36, Gordon Henderson wrote:
>>> Do keep up at the back..
>>>
>>> https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/8gb-raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-at-75/
>>>
>>> https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=117&t=275370
>>>
>>> -Gordon
>>>
>>
>> That is excellent news.
>>
>> I wonder if it also includes the necessary assemblers and compilers to
>> produce 64 bit programs?
>
> It should.  I've run 64-bit Gentoo Linux on the Raspberry Pi 3 before.
> Compiling on-device can be a bit painful (and some of the larger packages,
> like Chromium, won't build in 1 GB RAM), but I would build software under
> emulation on a more powerful host and sync binary packages over for
> installation.

Interesting.

Did the foreign Gentoo Linux provide full video capability and access to
all the I/O?

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