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Debian maybe, but then again maybe not. The distros don't like supporting a lot of separate arch revisions because they tend to behave like different arches. Th
by StillBored 3y ago
Debian maybe, but then again maybe not. The distros don't like supporting a lot of separate arch revisions because they tend to behave like different arches. That is why most of them have dropped 32-bit arm support, it was from a distro perspective a completely separate arch despite being able to run on much the same HW as the 64-bit arm distro. Given most arm devices made in the past ~decade have been 64-bit it was an obvious choice. People with 32-bit binary apps can run them on the 64-bit distro, and the maintainers don't have to keep building/testing/fixing an entirely separate set of machine images.
So, if someone forks the arch such that two different distros are required based on HW, its just going to fragment the distro's too because some of them will just pick one or the other profile.