[fedora-arm] Who's using Kirkwood?

[Gordan Bobic]

On 10/06/2012 10:43 AM, Jon Masters wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm interested to know who is using Kirkwood, and who would miss it if
> it went away. For now, we won't kill off ARMv5 because it is used in the
> official rPi builds but that doesn't mean I'm not interested to know
> whether we should put testing effort into Kirkwood for F18.
>
> My thought is that the latest plugs are moving to ARMv7, and so as the
> cutting edge Linux distro, we should make plans for deprecating support
> over the coming releases. This is not a call to drop support today. If I
> can get numbers on how many people care, that will help.

It be very careful about dropping Kirkwood. The original SheevaPlug and 
DreamPlug are still probably the most commonly available and most 
commonly used ARM machines out there.

Personally I don't really care if you drop the kernel support for them 
in latest Fedora because I build my own kernels anyway, but I suspect 
that opinions on this list may not be representative - membership of 
this list is likely to be skewed toward the developer audience rather 
than the users who expect to just dump the image on the SD card and use 
the device.

Perhaps when SheevaPlug and DreamPlug are no longer available to buy 
new, it might be OK to drop Kirkwood support, but I'd be weary of losing 
it before then.

Gordan