[Freedombox-discuss] Debian plan to drop support for Raspberry Pi and Dreamplug?

Petter Reinholdtsen pere at hungry.com
Wed Dec 4 12:31:30 UTC 2013


[Jonas Smedegaard]
> I believe proposal is not to drop the armel port entirely, but trim
> it to no longer support _smallest_ devices.

That might be better, unless Dreamplug is one of those.  The "- jessie
supported: - [proposed dropping]" comment was not too clear for me,
but it indicated that all armel archs supported in wheezy was planned
to be dropped in Jessie.  I guess I overlooked the link.

> You are correct that Neither Raspberry Pi nor Dreamplug can run on
> Debian armhf port (Dreamplug is ARMv5 that has no support for
> hardfloat, whereas Raspberry Pi is ARMv6 specifically supporting
> hardfloat but the Debian port has other features enabled too that
> are only supported in ARMv7 onwards).

Right.

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen



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