just another armel-debian user here, running in an old intel es4000 since
2006.

On Sun, 3 Mar 2024, 20:31 Christoph Biedl, <debian.a...@manchmal.in-ulm.de>
wrote:

> Emanuele Rocca wrote...
>
> > Any armel users out there? :-)
>
> Fairly late, but just to avoid the impression there aren't any left:
> Yes, here.
>
> But that's not an objection against plans in Debian kernel and/or d-i,
> I'm using my own kernel, and should I ever have the need of a new
> installation, I know how to debootstrap and the rest.
>
> Besides, the hardware is a Seagate DockStar, so
>
> Architecture:           armv5tel
>   Byte Order:           Little Endian
> CPU(s):                 1
>   On-line CPU(s) list:  0
> Vendor ID:              Marvell
>   Model name:           Feroceon-88FR131
>
> and 128 Mbytes of RAM. Running Debian stable already requires some hacks
> to not end up in thrashing, I might do a presentation "Running Debian on
> small systems" some day about it.
>
> In summary, I'm glad Debian keeps supporting this device - but I'm
> aware the good times are in the past and it will very likely become
> e-waste before the hardware dies. If not Debian ends the support, the
> Linux kernel will.
>
>     Christoph
>

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