With upcoming Android that support 64 bit is 32 bit support for Android going to be dropped soon too?
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03-11-2015, 11:54 PM
With upcoming Android that support 64 bit is 32 bit support for Android going to be dropped soon too?
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i7 3770K AMD Radeon RX480 8GB 16GB DDR3 03-12-2015, 12:26 AM
03-12-2015, 11:42 PM
Moved to the correct forum (for real this time).
About dropping 32-bit support, I don't think that's going to happen, at least not now. I recall Sonicadvance1 saying something to the effect that supporting 32-bit ARM CPUs isn't troublesome like supporting 32-bit x86 CPUs. That is to say, the reasons 32-bit support on x86 CPUs was dropped don't necessarily apply to ARM. He'll probably know more about it specifically. 03-13-2015, 12:27 AM
(03-12-2015, 11:42 PM)Shonumi Wrote: Moved to the correct forum (for real this time). he explained it quite well in another post. ARMv7 has many advantages over 32bit x86, including much better handling of floating point and extended integers. One of the big reasons 32bit was dropped was because of hacks needed to work around address and word size limitations, neither of which seem to affect armv7 nearly as much. Assuming sonic is interested in maintaining the armv7 JIT, I see no reason in the near future for support to be dropped. 03-13-2015, 09:04 AM
I think right now he is just busy getting the armv8 code to the same level as the armv7
03-13-2015, 09:12 AM
I'm also busy by moving halfway across the united states and working a new job, so my time got cut by a large margin that I could work on Dolphin atm.
My next task is to fix ARMv7 again, but before I can do that I need to settle in a bit. 03-13-2015, 09:15 AM
Moving is a chore, I know how much fun that isn't.
No worries, take your time 03-14-2015, 05:11 AM
The aarch64 build works great, although I haven't compared it to armv7. The way Android-64 works, you can have a single APK that supports both, although the build system for Dolphin may need to be tweaked a little for Android to handle this (you need both libs). The system will default to the 64-bit if available.
03-14-2015, 12:02 PM
Our build system already builds both ARMv7 and AArch64 for Android.
So no need for the end user to do anything different when testing AArch64. |
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