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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Walter,

After the arm-ac100 people left us high and dry, I doubt there will be much
enthusiasm to go and get burned again.

Regards,

Phill.

On 11 November 2014 18:05, Walter Lapchynski <wxl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > 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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