New simple command line sideloading tool - Page 3

Quoth · 02-08-2025, 08:35 AM

There are 64bit Atom tablets with Win10 that only run 32 bit Win10. Probably some cheap laptops too.
The BIOS/EFI is 32bit only. However I was able to customise a Debian 64 bit to use 32 bit loader and it installed and ran fine on the Win10 (32 bit) only tablet apart from no rotation of touch.

It seems there was a range of Atoms that Intel "crippled" by only having enough I/O pins for smaller amount of memory so as to not compete with their more expensive CPUs. Unfortunately not enough RAM for sensible running of 64 bit Windows 10.

The 32 bit Win10 hasn't been supported with updates/upgrades for a long while.

There ought to be Linux AMD64 and ARM (Pi and Crostini on ARM Chromebooks if that exists) and ESPECIALLY Mac AMD64 & ARM versions.
Current Crostini on Intel Chromebooks (AMD64) (2023 & later at least) is Debian 12 Linux and the 2023 models are supported till 2031 currently.

rupor · 08-01-2026, 05:48 PM

Just to revive this a bit: version 1.7.0 and later versions now have full support and builds for Mac - both arm64 and intel/amd64. And while I cannot test old Mac intel (have no hardware) I can confirm that everything (mtp and usbms drivers) works on Apple Silicon macOS 26.6 natively, on pair with Windows and Linux builds.

So, no - this program does not necessarily needs AMD64 processor, but will run with one on supported OS.

In addition there are now "light" builds for all platforms (stkm variants) which only include "mail" command and will happily run on pretty much anything which supports up to date Go toolchain.

08-01-2026, 05:48 PM	#32
rupor meat popsicle Posts: 241 Karma: 441248 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: USA Device: Kindles, Pixels, iPads	Just to revive this a bit: version 1.7.0 and later versions now have full support and builds for Mac - both arm64 and intel/amd64. And while I cannot test old Mac intel (have no hardware) I can confirm that everything (mtp and usbms drivers) works on Apple Silicon macOS 26.6 natively, on pair with Windows and Linux builds. So, no - this program does not necessarily needs AMD64 processor, but will run with one on supported OS. In addition there are now "light" builds for all platforms (stkm variants) which only include "mail" command and will happily run on pretty much anything which supports up to date Go toolchain. Last edited by rupor; Yesterday at 11:10 AM.

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02-08-2025, 08:35 AM	#31
Quoth Still reading Posts: 15,606 Karma: 114630515 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	There are 64bit Atom tablets with Win10 that only run 32 bit Win10. Probably some cheap laptops too. The BIOS/EFI is 32bit only. However I was able to customise a Debian 64 bit to use 32 bit loader and it installed and ran fine on the Win10 (32 bit) only tablet apart from no rotation of touch. It seems there was a range of Atoms that Intel "crippled" by only having enough I/O pins for smaller amount of memory so as to not compete with their more expensive CPUs. Unfortunately not enough RAM for sensible running of 64 bit Windows 10. The 32 bit Win10 hasn't been supported with updates/upgrades for a long while. There ought to be Linux AMD64 and ARM (Pi and Crostini on ARM Chromebooks if that exists) and ESPECIALLY Mac AMD64 & ARM versions. Current Crostini on Intel Chromebooks (AMD64) (2023 & later at least) is Debian 12 Linux and the 2023 models are supported till 2031 currently.

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