On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 12:40 PM, fedora_arm
<fedora_arm(a)third-harmonic.com> wrote:
On 07/16/2017 02:42 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 2:26 AM, fedora_arm
> <fedora_arm(a)third-harmonic.com> wrote:
>> On 07/15/2017 06:17 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>> Fedora hasn't supported anything less than ARMv7 (armhfp) since Fedora
18.
>> Not what I was hoping. But lack of an armel build isn't a long term issue.
>> Do any contemporary Fedora ARM derivatives exist which may still maintain
>> armel build infrastructure?
> None I'm aware of, there's been a number of attempts for ARMv6 to
> support original RPi/Pi Zero but even they're mostly dead.
Well this isn't exactly surprising for a server/workstation class
distribution to drop active support & soak for what has become
an obsolete/obsoleting embedded architecture.
The sole reason in pursuing the possibility is Fedora distro SRPM
content being a strong preference as a distro intake choice for
this customer. The armel product is essentially in maintenance
mode and worst case would be to create a one-off build solution.
The practicality of that approach is what I'm trying to understand.
The only armel/armsfp RPM-based distribution I know of is Mageia
(since Pignus is apparently not one). Their Mageia 6 release has an
armv5tl flavor in addition to the standard armv7hl flavor.
I think that armsfp is basically dead in most distributions, in part
due to the abundance of armhfp hardware replacing the old armsfp
stuff.
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