+++ Stuart Winter [2011-12-14 20:30 +0000]: > > Debian's armel port has a user base vastly larger than Slackware ARM's, > and as such the baseline will (I assume) remain at armv4 because there are > many devices out there that have such CPUs - and nobody wants to isolate > such a large number of users.
The v4 userbase is small and shrinking. Strongarm is the only popular platform that is v4 only that is still somewhat in use. But I think you really meant v4t, which includes a few more things that are still in use.: most notable is probably the Openmoko Freerunner and Neo devices. And a couple of NAS devices based on the FAS-something or-other. I can't think of anything else suitable for running vaguely modern linux on that is not at least v5. So unless you care particularly about Freerunner/Neo people then v5 is now a sensible baseline. All the plug computers are in fact v6, I believe, but I am not aware of any significant benefit in selecting a v6 baseline, which would leave behind v5 devices, like a lot of Xscale-based stuff. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111214221710.gb28...@dream.aleph1.co.uk
