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> Added: I've noticed that Alpine seems to have dispensed with ARMv6 architecture support altogether in the upstream. Unfortunately, this cuts off a lot of the
by ollieparanoid 7y ago
> Added: I've noticed that Alpine seems to have dispensed with ARMv6 architecture support altogether in the upstream. Unfortunately, this cuts off a lot of the oldest AOSP devices from support - devices that used to run quite well with CyanogenMod, and that ought to still be usable in some way, if perhaps not in a truly general-purpose sense given how limited some of them are (512MB RAM/512MB "internal" storage, etc.). Is there any hope of pmOS picking up this support?
Alpine has support for armv6, it is called "armhf" in the arch list here:
https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages
There was some discussion if support for it should be removed, but no decision had been made: https://lists.alpinelinux.org/alpine-devel/6569.html https://lists.alpinelinux.org/alpine-devel/6569.html
In theory it would be possible to keep armv6/armhf around in postmarketOS even if Alpine dropped it. But right now we don't have the resources to do that (and if we had, it would make more sense to help out in Alpine to keep the architecture alive there, if they are interested).