public inbox for development@lists.ipfire.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
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)
In-Reply-To: <1344796837.19132.10.camel@rice-oxley.tremer.info>

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 822 bytes --]

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


  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-13  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-12 18:40 Michael Tremer
2012-08-13  8:50 ` Arne Fitzenreiter [this message]
2012-08-13 20:19   ` Michael Tremer

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=8a1edb29d124bdc47b8f4d6c704d4ba6@mail01.ipfire.org \
    --to=arne.fitzenreiter@ipfire.org \
    --cc=development@lists.ipfire.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox