Re: Raising the armel port baseline to armv5te
On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 10:14:35PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 11/12/2017 05:44 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>...
> > A working kernel recent enough for buster on hardware where running
> > buster makes sense, and with actual users - this might simply no
> > longer exist.
>
> Why not?
>...
If I wanted to check whether buster armel works on ARMv4t,
what hardware would you suggest I'd buy to check?
ARMv4t is more than 20 years old and there does not seem to be any
vendor left who recommends an ARMv4t-based SoC for new designs and
provides a BSP for that purpose.
The Neo FreeRunner with 128MB RAM is at the lower limit of where running
Debian could make sense, and it once had a very active Linux and
Debian community - but even there no recent enough kernel exists.
I would be the first to protest against raising the baseline if
there were users left, but I am convinced that there are none left.
cu
Adrian
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