Re: RFC: dropping armel from Debian for the upcoming release

[Gandalf From The Conjurers]

Héllo all.

Totally agreed, dropping any Armel for long time reason and manufacturers support may apply to all arm64 also.

I really think it is a non urgent need but a hacking revival hardware possibility been just stopped...

I still got sheeva plugs being easily IOT based reworked, so, dropping them may need more work and mostly non up stream work being lost for all...

If it could be maintained it will be better...

This alert was already sent some few times and from some years already, but, still a bad idea for a mass reuse needs and possible been just, closed...

Thanks for the work

Have a good day in a free hacking world with old hardwares respect fullness...

Gérald 

Le 1 août 2024 07:55, Hector Oron <zu...@debian.org> a écrit :

[ {debian-kernel,debian-boot,debian-release}@d.o are in Bcc so they
can track follow up emails at debian-arm ML if interested. ]

Dear fellow developers,

Debian Installer no longer produces daily builds for this platform:
- https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armel/

Debian Linux kernel packages are only building support for Raspberry
Pi Zero, Zero W and 1:
- https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/blob/master/debian/config/armel/defines.toml
while many other platforms have been dropped.

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?

Regards
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