Any news for ARM devices?

And can we finally get a PIE capable version for newer devices?

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Present ARM applications look a bit dated indeed:
-----------------------platform----------------------version-----------date---------------GFLOP avg
Linux 2.6 running on armv5tel----------------------5.29--------19-03-2012------------0 GFLOPS
Raspbian running on Raspberry Pi (armv6l)--------5.33--------21-01-2015-----------24 GFLOPS
Android running on ARM-----------------------------5.32--------16-08-2013-----------35 GFLOPS
Linux running on A20-OLinuXino--------------------5.33--------24-01-2015------------0 GFLOPS

Linux 2.6 is ancient and dates from 2004 (though support has continued into 2016, development stopped after 2011), and I wonder who still crunches with an ARMv5 device.

The Android app dates from August 2013, which means that it will be compatible with Android 4.3 Jellybean and earlier and hardware up to 2013 too, and no later.
It is now 2017, Android is meanwhile at version 7, and octo-core 64-bit SOCs are in some of those devices.

The more recent Raspbian app is still compiled for the original BCM2835 SOC, which features a single-core ARM11 CPU of ARMv6 architecture.
Most Raspberries that work on this project will have either a BCM2836 SOC, which features a quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU of ARMv7 architecture, or a BCM2837 SOC, which features a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU of ARMv8 architecture (but uses the ARMv7 instruction set in 32-bit Raspbian).

The special app for the A20-OLinuXino (a dual-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU) might perhaps be ported to specific applications for the Raspberry Pi 2 and Pi 3 for better performance on those boards. Better compile and optimize for the specific boards, if possible.

I would also like to see ARM work, because my main machine doesn't have free electricity anymore. My ARM machines are solar powered, and can run 24/7 until the winter!

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Linux 2.6 is ancient and dates from 2004 (though support has continued into 2016, development stopped after 2011), and I wonder who still crunches with an ARMv5 device.


I actually have a couple still chugging away though the projects supporting them are slim pickings. http://www.enigmaathome.net/show_host_detail.php?hostid=150407 I do however, need to go take a look at them to see what they are doing as they are typically set and don't ever think about looking at devices. Those phones were not as prone to heat/battery bloat. Their biggest hang up was internal storage space.

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It does not have to be ARMv5. I have a bunch of v7 that had been crunching Enigma for years.

The real problem is position independent executable (PIE) though. That says it won't work on any Android 5 or above.

When I got my new machines in 2015 with android 5 I downgraded to 4.4 without much thinking but I don't think I will downgrade an Android 7+ device to Android 4...

There is no work for the old app that worked on android devices. Windows only atm.