Dropping armel+dove z0 flavours

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Wed Oct 7 00:34:03 BST 2009


Loïc Minier wrote:
>         Hi all,
> 
>  When we started supporting the armel+dove subarch in debian-cd/kernel
>  etc., it was on the earliest version of the boards: Z0.  These were
>  somewhat unstable and the next revision, Y0 was incompatible at the
>  kernel level with them, so we had two flavours until now:
>  - dove-z0 (for Dove Z0 -- surprize!)
>  - dove (for Y0 and Y1)
> 
>  All people we know off with Z0 boards stopped using them as this point
>  as they were superseded and replaced and were unstable anyway.
>  Chatting with Brad we wondered whether it was worth keeping them in the
>  tree, and we decided that since it probably mean some form of testing,
>  we'd rather abstain and focus our time on other armel issues.  So we
>  intend to drop them in the next week, before kernel freeze, in various
>  places.
> 
>  If you have any objection and would like us to keep Z0 support along
>  R2-D2 and C-3P0, speak up now.
> 
>    Thanks

Dropping Z0 gets my vote.

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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com



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