Hi Hector, On Thu, 2024-08-01 at 07:55 +0200, Hector Oron wrote: > Upstream projects, ARM companies which I was able to check with, do > not care that much about maintaining old code for ARMv5t chipsets, > therefore supporting it is more and more costly resource wise (not > only in Debian). > > Timely to the writing of this email, Arnd Bergmann posted the > following timeline to deprecate ARM (armel) architecture, you can read > at: > - > https://lwn.net/ml/all/2831c5a6-cfbf-4fe0-b51c-0396e5b0a...@app.fastmail.com/ > > Should Debian drop armel from the upcoming Debian release?
While I understand the reasoning behind it, also having read Arnd's mail, I don't understand why these decisions rarely consider the environment and sustainability when talking about removing support for a given hardware. ARM5vT/armel devices are still widely used for various embedded and low-energy applications where compute power doesn't matter but just reliability and energy consumption. Dropping support for these devices will mean that a lot of hardware will eventually be thrown away which otherwise could still have been fulfilled their purpose without any problems. It's certainly not easy to determine the actual usage statistics, but as long as there is a considerable user base, I think dropping support for hardware because it's old doesn't sound right to me. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
