On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 8:10 PM Peter Boy <p...@uni-bremen.de> wrote: > > > > > Am 16.11.2021 um 20:37 schrieb Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com>: > > > > On 15. 11. 21 20:15, Ben Cotton wrote: > >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RetireARMv7 > >> == Owner == > >> * Name: [[User:pbrobinson| Peter Robinson]] > >> * Email: <pbrobin...@fedoraproject.org> > > > > May I suggest to include > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/a...@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/YC2LYBJSFKDAVBUJAIFQCCBS5VLW5TUB/ > > in the feedback section (which is entirely missing from this proposal)? > > I've only been dealing with Arm SBC boards for a short time and therefore > only with aarch64 and certainly don't know many details yet. > > A big advantage of Linux is that older hardware is supported for a long time > and is still usable. This is almost a "trademark“.
Someone has to do that work. Volunteers are less and less on ARMv7, do you expect those remaining to increase their workload as a result? Because that is what is happening. > Therefore my question, would it reduce the effort already noticeably, if you > reduce armv7 to "server" (and evtl IoT), i.e. without all the graphical > interfaces? And without new, additional functionality, just security fixes? A > kind of „maintenance mode“? We've already de-focused Desktops and stopped creating a number of the DE images. > This could (hopefully) solve a number of problems raised by various > contributors to the discussion (and preserve the „trademark"). It wouldn't have a massive impact or reduction of work on the maintainers such as myself _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
