Opening up things, see how they work, and make them do what you want are just the basic needs of the average hacker. In some cases, a screwdriver and multimeter will do the job, but in other cases a ...

Linux kernel developers are renewing efforts to retire the x32 application binary interface (ABI), a little-used ...

It's not quite fully native, though.

Simon Long has announced a long-awaited release of Raspberry Pi OS, based on Debian 13 ("trixie") , for x86-64 systems.

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The big picture: The x86-64 instruction set was initially announced by AMD in 1999, providing a significant upgrade to the leading PC computing architecture. The technology proved highly successful, ...

The arch directory in the kernel source tree contains all of the architecture-specific code. There is a lot of code there, despite years of work by the development community to make things generic ...

In a move that has a significant part of the internet flashing back to the innocent days of 2001 when Intel launched its Itanium architecture as a replacement for the then 32-bit only x86 architecture ...

Forward-looking: After being beaten by AMD in introducing the first, truly 64-bit instruction set in the x86 CPU world, Intel is now trying to get ahead of its historical competitor by working on a ...

Intel has killed the 64-bit only x86S CPU specification it was planning to do aligned with modern OS like Windows 11. Back in May of 2023, Intel proposed a new 64-bit only "x86S" specification to ...