From: Arne Fitzenreiter <Arne.Fitzenreiter@ipfire.org>
To: development@lists.ipfire.org
Subject: Re: Dropping versatile kernel
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 08:50:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8a1edb29d124bdc47b8f4d6c704d4ba6@mail01.ipfire.org> (raw)
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On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 20:40:37 +0200, Michael Tremer
<michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> Hi Arne,
>
> you just dropped the Linux kernel which was compiled for ARM Versatile
> from IPFire 2.x:
>
> http://git.ipfire.org/?p=ipfire-2.x.git;a=commitdiff;h=c94c1fa5574230d9edbefdfe6aea14874593ec31
>
> 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.
I think we can drop this also for IPFire 3
If someone really need this we can easily readd it later.
Arne
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2012-08-12 18:40 Michael Tremer
2012-08-13 8:50 ` Arne Fitzenreiter [this message]
2012-08-13 20:19 ` Michael Tremer
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