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  • Ubuntu Server now has a 64K Page Size Installer for ARM64

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    While we’ve shipped a 64k page size kernel for a while now, starting with 22.04.4, we now provide an arm64+largemem installer image option that installs it by default: https://ubuntu.com/download/server/arm This removes one more step from getting your favorite AI/ML or large database workloads running optimally on Ubuntu/ARM.

  • Deploying Ubuntu OpenStack to ARM64 servers

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    At Canonical, we’ve been doing work to make sure Ubuntu OpenStack deploys on ARM servers as easily as on x86. Whether you have Qualcomm 2400 REP boards, Cavium ThunderX boards, HiSilicon D05 boards, or other Ubuntu  Certified server hardware, you can go from bare metal to a working OpenStack in minutes! The following tutorial will walk…

  • arm64 trusty images now work on GICv3 hosts

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    Ubuntu 14.04 originally shipped with a 4.4-based kernel, which didn’t yet support booting as a KVM guest on GICv3 systems. This meant you could only boot trusty instances on GICv2-based hosts. However, thanks to our Foundations team, Ubuntu 14.04 (‘trusty’)/arm64 images have switched to using the Ubuntu HWE kernel. This means you can now run Ubuntu 14.04…