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List:       ipfire-development
Subject:    Dropping versatile kernel
From:       michael.tremer () ipfire ! org (Michael Tremer)
Date:       2012-08-13 20:19:19
Message-ID: 1344889159.19132.25.camel () rice-oxley ! tremer ! info
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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 at 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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