2026-03-12 11:03 UTC
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@ncopa@fosstodon.org 2026-03-12 11:04
It was brought to my attention that rpi 1 is still produced, which also uses armv6
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@Nero@chaos.social 2026-03-12 11:10
@ncopa@fosstodon.org which kind of resources, build infrastructure or manpower?
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@waldi@chaos.social 2026-03-12 11:12
@ncopa@fosstodon.org Debian dropped armv6 support. So there is not much left. Is Alpine still using 32bit time_t?
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@fun@berkeley.edu.pl 2026-03-12 11:13
@ncopa@fosstodon.org on @postmarketOS@social.treehouse.systems side, I looked at the wiki for armhf devices that may be impacted by armhf dropping. postmarketOS supports 28 armhf devices. Out of all 28 armhf devices, 26 are actually armv7 running an armhf kernel/userspace for legacy reasons, and should be moved to armv7. Out of these, only one runs a mainline kernel. The remaining 2 are the RPi1 and zero.
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@gfaster@tilde.zone 2026-03-12 11:14
@ncopa@fosstodon.org what other options of Linux flavor (short of something like LFS) exist for armv6 if alpine drops support at this point?
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@updn@chaos.social 2026-03-12 12:19
@ncopa@fosstodon.org In the embedded/industrial space I'm still seeing a surprising amount of ARM9 and expect those to go on quite a while, but that'd be v5, so even older. v7 seems like a more sensible target for Alpine 32bit support than trying to keep that /and/ v6 on life support together.
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@Orca@nya.one 2026-03-12 12:54
@ncopa@fosstodon.org My oldest device is on ARMv7. But can you also check with the pmOS devs to see if they have supported ARMv6 devices?
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@kabelhaai@en.osm.town 2026-03-12 23:55
@ncopa@fosstodon.org keep arm v7 its raspi 3
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@stuartl@mastodon.longlandclan.id.au 2026-03-13 00:23
@ncopa@fosstodon.org Damn, I was about to try and bootstrap ARMv5 and contribute that in… but if you're dropping ARMv6 that seems rather pointless.
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@mjwin@mastodon.social 2026-03-13 06:55
@ncopa@fosstodon.org I have AlpineLinux on an RPi 1 running pi-hole (head-less). More efficient and such a nice experience compared to RaspberryOS.
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@zardoz03@mastodon.online 2026-03-13 11:35
@ncopa@fosstodon.org i wonder how apk would react if an edge system were to upgrade an upstream had no packages for it. i say that because i upgraded my pi0w 1.1 to edge because i was trying to get mdns to work and i read that avahi2dns and unbound worked.
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@newbyte@mastodon.nu 2026-03-13 12:16
@ncopa@fosstodon.org Removing armv7 would have major impact on postmarketOS as we still have many people actively working on devices with such CPUs. On the contrary armhf is pretty much dead.
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@macmpi@mastodon.social 2026-03-15 09:05
@ncopa@fosstodon.org armhf (and armv7) are very heavily used in education: many schools/universities are using lots of devices in labs to teach computing/coding, as they are so cheap and powerful-enough for this. That's many users: 1 teacher admin => lots of silent students, and probably new users down-the-road... #AlpineLinux is ideal distro to learn (small, simple, secure), and one of the last one to support those arch (is a feature, not a reason to give-up). (poll seems closed now...guess my vote 😉 )