On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 23:44 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > We have a recurring problem with building kernels for armel: three > flavours (iop32x, ixp4xx, orion5x) require the kernel image size to be > less than 1.4-1.5 MB in order to fit into a fixed flash partition. > > As more features continue to be added to Linux and cannot always > configurable as a module, it is necessary to override and disable them > on these three configurations[1]. I don't think this is sustainable > unless someone who particularly cares about these older platforms steps > up to take on this task. > > The iop32x and ixp4xx hardware appears to been discontinued in 2008. If > we remove these flavours now, they will still be supported in Debian 7 > until 2016. I think 8 years of support is pretty good. [...] I heard a lot of support for keeping iop32x, but no-one volunteereed to maintain the configuration. Unless someone does so, the next time they fail to build due to lack of space I may simply disable them. That does not, of course, prevent anyone from re-enabling them later with a fixed configuration. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings.
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