Re: Testing versatile kernel on Raspberry Pi?

From	Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Re: Testing versatile kernel on Raspberry Pi?
Date	2016-01-26 14:50 +0100
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On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 13:53 +0100, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 08:24:16AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
[...]
> > IMHO RPi1 is best supported by Raspbian, or if people really want it in
> > Debian then by armel, but not by an armhf+armel hybrid which involves
> > supporting v6 in some way on armhf.
> 
> I had a few RPi1s running with armel. For simple tasks (e.g.
> network2gpio or i2c) it's more than enough. I wonder if an armel
> -armmp kernel would be worth the trouble. We currently have the
> following armel kernel targets:
> 
> -kirkwood  (multiplatform support since v3.14 (ba5a37e521942))
> -orion5x   (multiplatform support since v4.5 [0])
> -versatile (DT only since v4.5 [0])
> 
> So maybe switch to -armv5 and -armv6 multiplatform kernels from
> v4.5+?

ARMv5 multiplatform would be nice, but we're constrained by the size of
flash partitions on the small machines that are supported so I don't
think this would work.

> -armv5     kirkwood + orion5x + versatile
> -armv6     bcm2036
> 
> [0] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1601.2/03005.html

I don't think we're going to add any more hardware support to the armel
port at this stage.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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Thread

Testing versatile kernel on Raspberry Pi? Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2016-01-16 03:30 +0100
  Re: Testing versatile kernel on Raspberry Pi? Ian Campbell <ijc@debian.org> - 2016-01-25 14:30 +0100
    Re: Testing versatile kernel on Raspberry Pi? Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2016-01-25 15:50 +0100
      Re: Testing versatile kernel on Raspberry Pi? Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-01-25 16:00 +0100
        Re: Testing versatile kernel on Raspberry Pi? Ian Campbell <ijc@debian.org> - 2016-01-25 16:10 +0100
          Re: Testing versatile kernel on Raspberry Pi? Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2016-01-25 17:30 +0100
      Re: Testing versatile kernel on Raspberry Pi? Ian Campbell <ijc@debian.org> - 2016-01-25 16:00 +0100
        Re: Testing versatile kernel on Raspberry Pi? Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2016-01-25 17:40 +0100
          Re: Testing versatile kernel on Raspberry Pi? Sebastian Reichel <sre@debian.org> - 2016-01-25 18:10 +0100
            Re: Testing versatile kernel on Raspberry Pi? Ian Campbell <ijc@debian.org> - 2016-01-26 09:30 +0100
              Re: Testing versatile kernel on Raspberry Pi? Sebastian Reichel <sre@debian.org> - 2016-01-26 14:00 +0100
                Re: Testing versatile kernel on Raspberry Pi? Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-01-26 14:50 +0100
                Re: Testing versatile kernel on Raspberry Pi? Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-01-27 18:50 +0100
                Re: Testing versatile kernel on Raspberry Pi? Sebastian Reichel <sre@debian.org> - 2016-01-27 19:20 +0100
                Re: Testing versatile kernel on Raspberry Pi? Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-01-27 19:30 +0100
                Re: Testing versatile kernel on Raspberry Pi? Sebastian Reichel <sre@debian.org> - 2016-01-27 21:00 +0100
              Re: Testing versatile kernel on Raspberry Pi? Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2016-01-26 16:20 +0100
            Re: Testing versatile kernel on Raspberry Pi? Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> - 2016-01-26 10:50 +0100

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