Re: armv7l status?

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> > armhfp is "Arm hard floating point" which covers the overall ARM 32
> > bit architecture, there can be different variants in there, armv6,
> > armv7, armv7+NEON, armv8 (the 32 bit variant as opposed to aarch64)
> > and so on...
>
> Just to be clear here, armhfp is *not* the common denominator of all
> 32-bit Arm architectures.  It does not cover the overall architecture in
> the sense that is compatible to with everything out there.  (I'm not
> sure if that is even possible.)  Fedora's 32-bit Arm requirements have
> always been fairly advanced, resulting in fewer compatible devices than
> other Linux distributions.

That is correct, the armhfp was a general designator we chose in
Fedora. The wider arm 32 bit ecosystem is wild so we decided to choose
a subset that was achievable and covered most of the use cases.
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