On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 13:53 +0100, Sebastian Reichel wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 08:24:16AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: [...] > > IMHO RPi1 is best supported by Raspbian, or if people really want it in > > Debian then by armel, but not by an armhf+armel hybrid which involves > > supporting v6 in some way on armhf. > > I had a few RPi1s running with armel. For simple tasks (e.g. > network2gpio or i2c) it's more than enough. I wonder if an armel > -armmp kernel would be worth the trouble. We currently have the > following armel kernel targets: > > -kirkwood (multiplatform support since v3.14 (ba5a37e521942)) > -orion5x (multiplatform support since v4.5 [0]) > -versatile (DT only since v4.5 [0]) > > So maybe switch to -armv5 and -armv6 multiplatform kernels from > v4.5+? ARMv5 multiplatform would be nice, but we're constrained by the size of flash partitions on the small machines that are supported so I don't think this would work. > -armv5 kirkwood + orion5x + versatile > -armv6 bcm2036 > > [0] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1601.2/03005.html I don't think we're going to add any more hardware support to the armel port at this stage. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Q. Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy? A. I don't know and I couldn't care less.
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