Re: armel not to be released anymore? (was: armel/marvell kernel size)

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 3:21 AM, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > Quoting Ben Hutchings: >> >> Still, as armel will not be a release architecture any more, I suppose >> it can diverge further from the normal configuration. > > I didn't know, that this already has been decided. > Could you point to the

Re: D-Link DNS-323 support dropped in Debian stretch

* Roger Shimizu [2018-03-26 19:36]: > So I want to know how many active users for D-Link DNS and QNAP devices now? I don't think there were ever many DNS-323 users. QNAP has an active user base but the hardware is aging, so I think they will be able to cope without

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

On 2018-03-27 17:29, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Mar 27, 2018, at 1:04 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: >> As a related subject, I could compile a more stripped down version of >> the armel kernel, put it for people to download and ask people to >> comment if it works for them, so that we

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

Hi, Ben and others following the discussion. On 2018-03-27 16:01, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2018-03-27 at 02:30 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > [...] I will see if all the modules make sense for an embedded system like this and I will send a list of options for opinions by others...

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

On Mar 27, 2018, at 1:04 PM, Rogério Brito wrote: > As a related subject, I could compile a more stripped down version of > the armel kernel, put it for people to download and ask people to > comment if it works for them, so that we can gauge what people actually > need from

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

Hi,Stefan. On 2018-03-27 09:34, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Similarly for wifi cards like those Intel ones like iwlwifi (which is >> the one that I have in this Core 2 Duo here)... > > I can answer this part: yes, you can definitely put an Intel wifi card > in the mini-pcie slot of an ARM box.

armel not to be released anymore? (was: armel/marvell kernel size)

Quoting Ben Hutchings : Still, as armel will not be a release architecture any more, I suppose it can diverge further from the normal configuration. I didn't know, that this already has been decided. Could you point to the emails about this? Thanks!

Re: armel not to be released anymore? (was: armel/marvell kernel size)

On Tue, 2018-03-27 at 21:21 +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > Quoting Ben Hutchings : > > Still, as armel will not be a release architecture any more, I > > suppose > > it can diverge further from the normal configuration. > > I didn't know, that this already has been

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

On Tue, 2018-03-27 at 02:30 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: [...] > > > I will see if all the modules make sense for an embedded system like this > > > and I will send a list of options for opinions by others... > > > > [...] > > > > As I see it, the point of installing Debian on little NAS boxes is

Re: D-Link DNS-323 support dropped in Debian stretch

Hi, On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 07:36:26PM +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: > There's one possibility that can bring back qnap, or even D-Link DNS device: > - create a new flavour for armel, such as armel-none-mini > - the new flavour will disable many features that other common kernels > have, such as

Re: armel/marvell kernel size

> Similarly for wifi cards like those Intel ones like iwlwifi (which is > the one that I have in this Core 2 Duo here)... I can answer this part: yes, you can definitely put an Intel wifi card in the mini-pcie slot of an ARM box. Stefan