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From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
To: development@lists.ipfire.org
Subject: Re: Dropping versatile kernel
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:19:19 +0200
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Okay done.

Commit:
http://git.ipfire.org/?p=3Dipfire-3.x.git;a=3Dcommit;h=3D5425c9c9792c144a3f8a=
38df170303d0a0d41ee0

Package:
https://pakfire.ipfire.org/build/dc29bced-812f-4b96-a711-8a356407f035

Michael

On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 08:50 +0000, Arne Fitzenreiter wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 20:40:37 +0200, Michael Tremer
> <michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> > Hi Arne,
> >=20
> > you just dropped the Linux kernel which was compiled for ARM Versatile
> > from IPFire 2.x:
> >=20
> > http://git.ipfire.org/?p=3Dipfire-2.x.git;a=3Dcommitdiff;h=3Dc94c1fa55742=
30d9edbefdfe6aea14874593ec31
> >=20
> > The reasons are that there is no use for it except virtual environments
> > with QEMU. However, these are very slow and pretty much unusable.
> >=20
> > Do you think there are any other reasons to keep the versatile kernel in
> > IPFire 3? I guess we could drop it, too.
> >=20
> > A benefit would be a massive increase in build time of the kernels for
> > ARMv5tel which is more than 8 hours on Pandaboard.
>=20
> I think we can drop this also for IPFire 3
> If someone really need this we can easily readd it later.
>=20
> Arne
>=20


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