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[Walter Lapchynski <wxl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Supporting ARM would be awesome, but ARM isn't ARM. There is the RaspPi,
> which we can't support because it is ARMv6 - Ubuntu only builds for ARMv7
> and better.

I did mean v7 FWIW. Except for the Pi, most ARM boards out there

> Conclusion: supporting ARM means in fact: support a small range of devices.

I did some talking at #ubuntu-arm. It appears that the reason the port
exists is for two reasons:
1. supporting Touch (a small range of devices)
2. ARM servers

Beyond that, like you said, there's a lot of differences when it comes
to booting and drivers. That being said, I retract my original query.
We should not be supporting this. We'd have better luck supporting PPC
(oh wait, we do). I'll make a blog post or something about it later
once I get it going.

Sorry for getting everyone excited. :)

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