[fedora-arm] Who's using Kirkwood?

David A. Marlin dmarlin at redhat.com
Sat Oct 6 10:16:49 UTC 2012


Jon Masters wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm interested to know who is using Kirkwood, and who would miss it if
> it went away. 
>   
Just to get a rough gauge of interest, perhaps we should look at the 
download stats for the F17 images.  That won't tell us the
number of actual 'users', but will at least give us an idea of how many 
people even looked at Fedora on Kirkwood (and other platforms).

Just a thought,

d.marlin
========

> 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.
>
> Jon.
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