On 10/27/25 05:20, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
W dniu 27.10.2025 o 01:15, Jan-Daniel Kaplanski pisze:
> Besides, the armhf baseline of armv7-a+fp aligns with the Cortex-A8
> from 2005[2]. I highly doubt that archaic architecture has a lot of
> users besides SBCs up to the generation of RPi 2 and legacy embedded
> systems that are likely EOL too. Especially since aarch64 came in
> 2012 with armv8-a on the Cortex-A53/A57[3][4].
Many people would love to see arm32 go away. Market is still against us
and arm32 is still sold and used.
It's funny how the push to make architectures go away corresponds with
the patent expiration on those architectures, I.E. the point at which
clones (compatible reimplementations) can start being sold very cheaply.
Proprietary commercial vendors want to kill their competition. "Many
people" work for hardware vendors who not only stop selling things when
their patents expire, but actively want support for stuff they were just
recently selling to go away.
Rob
