On Thu, 2016-12-08 at 23:12 +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Roger Shimizu wrote... > > > I'm ARM porter on armel/marvell (orion5x/kirkwood). > > Stretch will be frozen and released soon, which makes me bit depressed, > > because it means armel will be dropped out of unstable/testing as the > > conclusion of Cape Town BoF. > > Same here. My Dockstars (orion5x/kirkwood) still work like a charm and > it gives a bad feeling having to trash them some day just because > there's no support any more. > > On the other hand, they face another problem I guess is typical for > that generation, just by the age: Memory. [...] Also, dedicated tiny flash partitions for the kernel and initrd. I wouldn't be surprised to be find that by the time we want to release buster we can't build a useful kernel that fits into the 2 MB partition that most of these devices seem to have. As it is, stretch will be supported until 2020, maybe 2022 on armel. Is it really worthwhile to add another 2 years to that? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Logic doesn't apply to the real world. - Marvin Minsky
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