@ChuckPA said:
Putting on my “Engineering hat”…Had synology opted for a processor vendor which included the ARMv7 (32 bit) spec, PMS would be operating in 32 bit mode now.
The AArch32 mode is an optional part of the ARMv8 architecture. All of the current Cortex ARMv8 cores implement it, but it is possible that an ARMv8 core won't necessarily implement it. Where present the A32 instruction set is backwards compatible with ARMv7-A, so "should just work", although there are usually a few minor CPU-specific integration changes in the kernel side (things like the implementation-defined CP15 settings which are not entirely defined by the architecture). That said, even though the ISA (A32) is a superset of ARMv7-A ARM ISA, there are some architectural (AArch32) behaviours which are slightly different or new in ARMv8, so I suspect even if you only want a 32-bit kernel you will want to use some of the new ARMv8 features to get the most out of it.Ref: https://community.arm.com/processors/f/discussions/4798/armv8-backwards-compatibility-with-armv7
That is all well and good but what I’m saying is that this processor should be more than capable of handling plex given that Synology states the DS218play can transcode 4K video.
