Re: Future of armv7

> On Nov 15, 2025, at 10:44 AM, Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Sat, Nov 15, 2025, 11:31 AM void <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2025 at 10:05:00AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
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>> >So (1) is true since we have users, but their numbers are dwindling. All
>> >the data we have shows this. Some people are still using it, but it's a lot
>> >fewer than 2 years ago. 
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>> How would you know? I'm genuinely interested in how and where from
>> and/or how derived you'd get or otherwise determine "the data"
>> in this context.
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> Community surveys, show of hands at conferences, mailing list traffic and armv7 package downloads (this is second hand).
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> Warner

I use the Zynq boards every day, but I’ve never downloaded a package or an ISO.  I build my own from source for installs and don’t really download or build non system software.
I’m not sure how representative I am either way but I am here and unless I wrote articles you wouldn’t know about me at all (you probably still don’t, I don’t know if anyone actually reads them.)
Christopher