On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 3:11 PM, John Masseria wrote:

> But does this mean that armhf will move from ARMv7 to ARMv8?

armhf will remain as-is and we will also add an arm64 port:

https://wiki.debian.org/Arm64Port
http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/architecture.php?a=arm64&suite=sid

> Or is ARMv7 upward compatible with ARMv8, meaning an ARMv8 processor can
> natively run ARMv7 compiled binaries?

ARMv8 processors are dual-mode and can run ARMv7 code:

http://www.arm.com/products/processors/armv8-architecture.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#ARMv8_and_64-bit

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pabs

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