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[Wayne Ward <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

so when we get the tablet that runs firefox thats because its 64bit so 
this means we cant do the same on the phone? i see people doing that 
already ...
be good if we can run the same on the phone to fill the gaps of missing 
applications

Wayne

On 05/02/16 11:22, Stephen M. Webb wrote:
> On 16-02-05 03:29 AM, Alberto Mardegan wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >    A question for those working on the just announced M10 tablet: will we
> > be able to run 32bit arm applications (that is, the same binaries we are
> > producing for the phones) on it?
> > As far as I understand, the CPU is capable of running both 64 and 32
> > bits applications, and I presume that the base OS will be running at 64
> > bits. But I guess that if the armhf version of the platform libs is
> > installed, it will be able to run unmodified armhf apps?
> At the moment the Linux kernel is 64-bit to match the CPU but the userspace runtime is effectively the same 32-bit armhf
> runtime we use on other Ubuntu Touch devices.
>
> tl;dr you will be able to run the same 32bit arm applications on it.