Re: Dropping versatile kernel

On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 20:40:37 +0200, Michael Tremer michael.tremer@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=c94c1fa5574230d9edbef...

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