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Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ?

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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 <bunk@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
> 
> -- 
> 
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>        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
>       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
>                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
> 

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Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ? Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2017-11-05 23:00 +0100
  Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ? Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> - 2017-11-07 11:10 +0100
    Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ? John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> - 2017-11-07 11:20 +0100
    Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ? "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> - 2017-11-07 11:50 +0100
      Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ? "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> - 2017-11-07 13:40 +0100
      Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ? Wookey <wookey@wookware.org> - 2017-11-07 20:50 +0100
        Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ? Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2017-11-07 22:30 +0100
          Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ? Sune Vuorela <nospam@vuorela.dk> - 2017-11-09 18:50 +0100
            Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ? John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> - 2017-11-09 19:00 +0100
            Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-11-09 20:10 +0100
          Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ? Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se> - 2017-11-11 21:10 +0100
            Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ? Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@kleine-koenig.org> - 2017-11-11 22:40 +0100
            Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ? Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2017-11-12 00:40 +0100
    Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ? Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2017-11-07 20:30 +0100
  Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ? Rick Thomas <rick@kptz.org> - 2017-11-07 12:10 +0100
    Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ? Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2017-11-07 12:50 +0100
      Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ? Rick Thomas <rick@kptz.org> - 2017-11-07 13:10 +0100
    Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2017-11-07 13:30 +0100
  Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ? Héctor Orón Martínez <hector.oron@gmail.com> - 2017-11-07 13:50 +0100
    Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ? Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2017-11-07 14:00 +0100
    Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ? Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2017-11-07 20:10 +0100
      Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ? gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> - 2017-11-07 23:30 +0100
  Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ? Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2017-11-07 14:20 +0100
    Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ? Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin@juszkiewicz.com.pl> - 2017-11-07 15:50 +0100
  Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ? Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2017-11-20 11:10 +0100
  Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ? Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org> - 2017-11-20 11:30 +0100
    Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ? lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) - 2017-11-20 16:30 +0100

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