Re: Support for ixp4xx/NSLU2 in future releases of Debian?

[Xan <dxpublica@telefonica.net>]

En/na Maciek Niedzielski ha escrit:
> Hello list,
> I've been using ubuntu on my NSLU2 until now (I still have much to learn about 
> GNU/Linux, etc, so I decided to use the same distro as my helpful "local 
> expert"), but today I found out that new ubuntu no longer supports ipx4xx 
> (they dropped ARMv5). Since dist-upgrade left my system in unusable state, I 
> am looking for a new distro and the obvious first choice would be Debian.
> However, I first wanted to make sure that the same move is not planned in 
> Debian in the near future (maybe ubuntu dropped it because debian is dropping 
> it, too?)
> Thank you in advance for your answers,
>   
Officially, I don't know, but in my opinion ubuntu drops support for 
ipx4xx because they concentrate in mobiles (modern arm: see the last 
comments 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/debian-installer/+bug/366320).

For the other hand, I hear that there was no clear who was the 
maintainer of ipx4xx driver in kernel. I don't remember in what journal 
I read. But I think that it has solved.

Just an opinion,
Xan.*
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