Jon,
Jon Masters <jcm(a)redhat.com> writes:
Hi Folks,
I'm interested to know who is using Kirkwood, and who would miss it if
it went away. For now, we won't kill off ARMv5 because it is used in the
official rPi builds but that doesn't mean I'm not interested to know
whether we should put testing effort into Kirkwood for F18.
My thought is that the latest plugs are moving to ARMv7, and so as the
cutting edge Linux distro, we should make plans for deprecating support
over the coming releases. This is not a call to drop support today. If I
can get numbers on how many people care, that will help.
All my Arm devices are Kirkwoods, including Sheeva and Guru Plug
devices, and I was considering acquiring some Dreamplug devices, too. I
use them in production (with Fedora), and honestly I'd feel very put out
if Fedora dropped support for them. I know a bunch of other people who
have other kirkwood devices, too.
I know that RPi looks interesting, but they are still very hard to
acquire. (Limit 1, then wait a few months??)
The x86 port still supports a Pentium, I don't see any reason to drop
support for kirkwood. Is it really that much extra effort?
Jon.
-derek
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