Control: tags patch On Vi, 26 iul 19, 21:11:46, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 26 iul 19, 19:29:26, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > > The raise to ARMv5T was necessary to keep armel supported. It wouldn't have > > been > > possible to keep the port if had let it at ARMv4T. > > Wikipedia only mentions ARMv5TE.
Below a patch for the Release Notes, loosely inspired from the s390x
entry.
Feedback very much welcome, especially whether this is
an ISA bump (Wikipedia mentions them as "Microarchitectures"[1]).
diff --git a/en/issues.dbk b/en/issues.dbk
index 7b46d168..e11df703 100644
--- a/en/issues.dbk
+++ b/en/issues.dbk
@@ -23,6 +23,20 @@ information mentioned in <xref linkend="morereading"/>.
&oldreleasename; to &releasename;.
</para>
+ <section id="isa-baseline-for-armel" arch="armel">
+ <!-- stretch to buster-->
+ <title>armel ISA raised to ARMv5TE</title>
+ <para>
+ Various upstream projects have raised their baseline ISA to ARMv5TE.
+ As a consequence the baseline for the <literal>armel</literal> port
+ had to be raised as well.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Systems with ARMv4T processors will not work with buster and should not
be
+ upgraded.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
<section id="isa-baseline-for-s390x" arch="s390x">
<!-- stretch to buster-->
<title>s390x ISA raised to z196</title>
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ARM_microarchitectures
Kind regards,
Andrei
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