Re: Architecture baseline for Forky

On 10/27/25 05:20, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> W dniu 27.10.2025 o 01:15, Jan-Daniel Kaplanski pisze:
> 
>  > Besides, the armhf baseline of armv7-a+fp aligns with the Cortex-A8
>  > from 2005[2]. I highly doubt that archaic architecture has a lot of
>  > users besides SBCs up to the generation of RPi 2 and legacy embedded
>  > systems that are likely EOL too. Especially since aarch64 came in
>  > 2012 with armv8-a on the Cortex-A53/A57[3][4].
> 
> Many people would love to see arm32 go away. Market is still against us 
> and arm32 is still sold and used.

It's funny how the push to make architectures go away corresponds with 
the patent expiration on those architectures, I.E. the point at which 
clones (compatible reimplementations) can start being sold very cheaply.

Proprietary commercial vendors want to kill their competition. "Many 
people" work for hardware vendors who not only stop selling things when 
their patents expire, but actively want support for stuff they were just 
recently selling to go away.

Rob