On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 12:15:00PM +1000, James Tocknell wrote:
I think armhf CPUs are still being manufactured, and there are still boards like https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/Home-Server/Pioneer-FreedomBox-HSK/open-source-hardware being sold.
I won't be surprised if at some point no arguments, not even this one, will be enough to keep 32-bit architectures as full ports in Debian, and armhf, if not dropped completely by that point, will become a port with significantly lower % of packages built and/or with significantly lower QA obligations like requiring tests to pass. Because I don't think many upstreams make sure their software works on such architectures or even consider that somebody runs it there, and bitrot is expected to produce failures specific to 32-bit architectures.
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