How do I know if a machine is ARMv4t? I have a sheevaplug and a couple of openrd machines (one “client”, the other “ultimate”) that are still doing useful work. Are they v4t?
Thanks, Rick > On Nov 5, 2017, at 1:32 PM, Adrian Bunk <b...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > for the armel port in buster the question of raising the baseline came up. > > 20 years ago you could go into a shop and buy a mobile phone > with a CPU supported by the armel port in stretch. > > Roger Shimizu is doing a great job on ARMv5 hardware and I've seen bug > reports from users on ARMv5 hardware in stretch, so it is clear that > ARMv5 should stay supported (and of course also ARMv6 and ARMv7). > > But while it was mentioned that there exists ARMv4t hardware that works > with current mainline kernels [1], it is not clear whether there are any > actual users left - and without users we might not even notice if the > port is broken on the baseline. > > If anyone is running stretch, buster or sid on ARMv4t hardware, > then please let us know what device and kernel you are using > and whether you intend to use buster. > > cu > Adrian > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2017/08/msg00046.html > > -- > > "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out > of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. > "Only a promise," Lao Er said. > Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed >
