On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 8:10 PM Peter Boy <pboy(a)uni-bremen.de> wrote:
> Am 16.11.2021 um 20:37 schrieb Miro Hrončok <mhroncok(a)redhat.com>:
>
> On 15. 11. 21 20:15, Ben Cotton wrote:
>>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RetireARMv7
>> == Owner ==
>> * Name: [[User:pbrobinson| Peter Robinson]]
>> * Email: <pbrobinson(a)fedoraproject.org>
>
> May I suggest to include
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/arm@lists.fedoraproject.org...
in the feedback section (which is entirely missing from this proposal)?
I've only been dealing with Arm SBC boards for a short time and therefore only with
aarch64 and certainly don't know many details yet.
A big advantage of Linux is that older hardware is supported for a long time and is still
usable. This is almost a "trademark“.
Therefore my question, would it reduce the effort already noticeably, if you reduce armv7
to "server" (and evtl IoT), i.e. without all the graphical interfaces? And
without new, additional functionality, just security fixes? A kind of „maintenance mode“?
This could (hopefully) solve a number of problems raised by various contributors to the
discussion (and preserve the „trademark").
We've basically already done that, the amount of desktop images
produced has reduced over time, and the main focus for some time has
already been IoT/Server etc. We basically don't block on DEs any more.