On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Jon Masters <jcm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Gordan, > > On 10/06/2012 05:58 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote: >> On 10/06/2012 10:43 AM, Jon Masters wrote: >>> 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. >> >> It be very careful about dropping Kirkwood. The original SheevaPlug and >> DreamPlug are still probably the most commonly available and most >> commonly used ARM machines out there. > > That /may/ be true. Maybe. I don't know that for sure. They certainly > were popular amongst a certain crowd. I would say the most popular board > these days is likely the rPi, followed by some of the new v7 devices, > especially the cheaper rPi-inspired AllWinner based stuff, which we > probably need to look into supporting more officially. We already are. People are running Fedora on various AllWinner devices and I'll have a Cubieboard some time soon and was planning on putting together a kernel for it. It unfortunately will be similar to that of the RPi as the source code is not yet upstream although I believe there is movement towards getting it there. Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
