Re: [RFC} arm architecture board/feature deprecation timeline

2024-07-31 Thread Aaro Koskinen
Hi, On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 07:29:29PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > === early ARMv6 === > > This is the ARM1136r0p in NXP i.MX31 and OMAP24xx, which in > practice means just the Nokia N8xx tablet. > It causes a lot of pain to support in the kernel since it > requires special hacks to support in

Re: D-Link DNS-323 support dropped in Debian stretch

2018-03-27 Thread Aaro Koskinen
Hi, On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 07:36:26PM +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: > There's one possibility that can bring back qnap, or even D-Link DNS device: > - create a new flavour for armel, such as armel-none-mini > - the new flavour will disable many features that other common kernels > have, such as wir

Re: ARM Ports BoF: armel in buster

2017-08-17 Thread Aaro Koskinen
Hi, On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 03:04:26PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > With plenty of v6 Raspberry Pi Zero still being sold today there's > plenty of new v6 hardware available, and Debian should continue to > offer an own root filesystem for such hardware. +1 > Regarding the point that v4 is no lon

Re: Debian on thecus N2560

2013-11-05 Thread Aaro Koskinen
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 08:19:53PM +, Brian Platt wrote: > With energy prices here in the UK spiraling ever upwards it's time I changed > my > home NAS hardware to something a little less power hungry. After some random > searching I came across the Thecus N2560 http://www.thecus.com/product.p

Re: Dropping support for the smallest armel machines

2013-06-24 Thread Aaro Koskinen
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:44:42PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > We have a recurring problem with building kernels for armel: three > flavours (iop32x, ixp4xx, orion5x) require the kernel image size to be > less than 1.4-1.5 MB in order to fit into a fixed flash partition. At least on Thecus N2100

Re: sheeva with linux kernels not loading

2013-06-14 Thread Aaro Koskinen
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 07:41:24AM +0100, Stuart Winter wrote: > I've been unable to produce Linux 3.8 and 3.9 kernels with gcc 4.8.0, but > the same kernels build and boot when compiled with gcc 4.7.2. FWIW, I'm also unable to get a stable kernel for kirkwood with 4.8 (already tried 4.8.1), but G

Re: Can't get a Linux 3.6-rc zImage smaller than 2MB

2012-09-12 Thread Aaro Koskinen
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:46:24PM +0200, Maciej Soltysiak wrote: > Was anyone successful in getting a 3.6-rc5 kernel zImage smaller than 2MB? Just a thought, but you could also look into kexec if your bootloader has limitations for kernel size. I.e. build a very minimal kernel/initramfs that is a