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.
I'm using Kirkwood, with a couple of Dreamplugs. I've been working to get F17 and/or F18 to work on it (it turns out the Dreamplug doesn't have NAND and the orion_nand kernel module was hanging).
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.
I would hate to have to move back to Debian on my plugs. I use Fedora on my desktop and RHEL and CentOS on my servers, so I really like the option of having the same on my Dreamplugs and Synology NAS (and other ARMv5's I may purchase in the future). Global Scale is still actively selling ARMv5 devices, and Synology (I have a 212) is still actively selling NAS's with Kirkwood, so it is far from a dead architecture.
I do understand your point about Fedora being cutting edge (though last I checked Fedora still runs on a Pentium 4 :-), and maybe BusyBox or Debian is a better choice anyway for "small computers", but I'd hate to not have a Fedora option, as I think there are a lot of Kirkwood's out there. And while Kirkwood is a subset of a small subset (ARM computers), I still consider it pretty cutting edge! ARM is still pretty new, and there are a lot of plugs out there that don't even know that Fedora is an option :-).
Anyway, my two cents. I have a couple of Dreamplugs and just starting to get active in the ARM and Fedora ARM communities. I'm still learning a lot, but am certainly willing to chip in where I can on testing (though probably will need some hand-holding at first).
Cheers,
Eric
Eric
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