[OpenWrt-Devel] ARMv4 (not v4t) marked obsolete in gcc-6

[Roman Yeryomin]

On 2016-03-11 08:48, John Crispin wrote:
> On 11/03/2016 06:44, Hans Ulli Kroll wrote:
>> Hi
>>> 
>>> * Gemini: officially supported in OpenWRT today, with the latest 
>>> compiler. This one
>>>   will likely cause the most issues for actual users. It would be 
>>> helpful to get
>>>   some numbers about users or downloads here, to see whether it can 
>>> be dropped
>>>   in a future OpenWRT release or if it might be possible to leave 
>>> this on
>>>   gcc-6.x when the other platforms move on to gcc-7+
>> 
>> I don't have any numbers from the OPenWRT people.
>> For the NAS BOXes itself, I get one/two support questions a month on 
>> the
>> german based forum.
>> I think most people know about the SATA bug, which makes the platform
>> unreliable for some SATA drives.
>> y
>> Hans Ulli
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We have several active users. Roman has done a great job to constantly
> maintain and update the target. We have been including gemini in our
> releases for years thanks to Romans effort. It would be a shame to to
> see support being dropped, even if there are few yet active users.
> 

Thanks, John.
I'm actively using it as a backup box and know at least several other 
people. Although it's quite old I can't stop using it, it serves well 
for me and I don't see any reason to throw it out.
I've heard of SATA problems but never seen them myself.
As to the numbers I think that people like me (or others trying out 
OpenWrt) usually don't go to the forums, so number of questions there 
doesn't tell much (but even there latest messages are from last month, 
so not dead at all). Maybe number of downloads from 
downloads.openwrt.org can tell more but I would guess that actual users 
would rather compile it themselves.

So I vote for not killing it at least until it's supported by kernel.

Actually that reminds me to upgrade to 4.4 and do proper sysupgrade 
support.


Regards,
Roman