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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
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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=3Dc94c1fa5574230=
d9edbefdfe6aea14874593ec31
>=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.

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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