Dropping versatile kernel

Dropping versatile kernel

[Michael Tremer]

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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=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.

Michael

Re: Dropping versatile kernel

[Arne Fitzenreiter]

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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

Re: Dropping versatile kernel

[Michael Tremer]

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Okay done.

Commit:
http://git.ipfire.org/?p=ipfire-3.x.git;a=commit;h=5425c9c9792c144a3f8a38df170303d0a0d41ee0

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,
> > 
> > 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
>