[fedora-arm] Who's using Kirkwood?

[Derek Atkins]

Jon,

Jon Masters <jcm at redhat.com> writes:

> 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.

All my Arm devices are Kirkwoods, including Sheeva and Guru Plug
devices, and I was considering acquiring some Dreamplug devices, too.  I
use them in production (with Fedora), and honestly I'd feel very put out
if Fedora dropped support for them.  I know a bunch of other people who
have other kirkwood devices, too.

I know that RPi looks interesting, but they are still very hard to
acquire.  (Limit 1, then wait a few months??)

The x86 port still supports a Pentium, I don't see any reason to drop
support for kirkwood.  Is it really that much extra effort?

> Jon.

-derek
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