Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 10:47:48 +0200
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: Alpine develmopment <~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org>
Subject: Can we drop armhf (armv6) after v3.12?
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Hi!

Can we drop the armhf architecture after 3.12 release?

It means that we will continue support armfh with 3.12 for two mor
years, but edge and next release 3.13 will be without armhf.

This means that we effectively drop support for Raspberry pi 1 and
raspberry pi zero which are armv6. This is also the hardware we have
kernel for.

The reason is that there are increasing number of issues that are not
fixed upstream. For example:
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-65246

We will also need to rebuild all our 32 bit architectures from scratch
when upgrading to musl 1.2 due to time64. It requires significant
effort to do that and it would be nice to only need to do it for x86
and armv7, and drop armhf.

Are there any good reasons to why we should keep armhf?

Are there other reasons to why we should drop it?


-nc

PS. This was previously been discussed for 3.10 release:
https://lists.alpinelinux.org/~alpine/devel/%3C20190404112525.4b04fdeb%40ncopa-desktop.copa.dup.pw%3E#%3CCAGP1gyPCsaHh+85g0QX-Cu40K-5Vd7xqLTV2aGiUgUr+RdrdFQ@mail.gmail.com%3E