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From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
To: development@lists.ipfire.org
Subject: Dropping versatile kernel
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 20:40:37 +0200
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Hi Arne,

you just dropped the Linux kernel which was compiled for ARM Versatile
from IPFire 2.x:

http://git.ipfire.org/?p=3Dipfire-2.x.git;a=3Dcommitdiff;h=3Dc94c1fa5574230d9=
edbefdfe6aea14874593ec31

The reasons are that there is no use for it except virtual environments
with QEMU. However, these are very slow and pretty much unusable.

Do you think there are any other reasons to keep the versatile kernel in
IPFire 3? I guess we could drop it, too.

A benefit would be a massive increase in build time of the kernels for
ARMv5tel which is more than 8 hours on Pandaboard.

Michael


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