ti 3. marrask. 2020 klo 22.44 Uwe Kleine-König ([email protected]) kirjoitti: > For now it is not even certain that bullseye will include support for > armhf at all. See
Just noting that I love how many times these discussions occur along the lines of "armhf starts to be quite old and with problems, not sure how long it is going to be supported" and then the opportunity to delightfully answer "well... it's armel" :) Some bits of history, these QNAP devices are not ancient as such, they were announced in 2013. But they happened to use a Marvell Kirkwood chipset which is only ARMv5, using an ARM core that was announced in 2001 (with some Wikipedia checking). ARMv7 ie armhf cores would have been available since 2007. A bit similarly my Openmoko GTA02 in 2008 had ARMv4 (the Debian armel baseline) compatible CPU, which had an ARM core announced in 1998. Sometimes new things are a bit slow to trickle. With Debian 10 LTS support until 2024 the lifetime of these QNAP devices would be max 11 years if bought on the release year, which is a bit short for a solid piece of hardware. I'll need to investigate options latest by 2024, like maintaining the couple of externally visible network services myself in case of security updates. Anyway, I'm extremely happy with Martin Michlmayr's original work on the official Debian support for these old QNAP Orion/Kirkwood based devices, and the problem solving we've all done together. They have brought me many good Debian NAS years. -Timo
