Re: ARM Ports BoF: armel in buster
On 08/17/2017 08:49 PM, Philippe Clérié wrote:
> If none of the curent armel porters want to continue working on armel
> for buster that is OK, but dropping armel from testing now would result
> in additional work later for re-adding it.
Roger Shimizu and me are interested in keeping this port as well. That's
why I am happy to help wherever I can.
> With plenty of v6 Raspberry Pi Zero still being sold today there's
> plenty of new v6 hardware available, and Debian should continue to
> offer an own root filesystem for such hardware.
Yep. That's my main point as well. Technology has come to a point where
even rather old hardware is still very useful for small embedded
applications. The appeal comes mainly from the very low costs as well
as low power consumption. Also, I would argue that especially in third
world countries, old ARM hardware is still widely used.
> And for users with v5 hardware there are not many alternatives.
>
> This year I have been one of the people who continuously follow
> FTBFS on the buildds for all release architectures and report bugs.
> armel is not in a bad shape, basically at the level of armhf.
I agree. With over 12200 binary packages being up-to-date, I don't see
any particular problems. I recently fixed openjdk-9 on armel and will
fix anything that people throw at me ;).
Adrian
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