From Newsgroup: comp.sys.raspberry-pi
On 11/07/2026 18:22, Theo wrote:
I think a lot of OS folks want to get rid of ARMv6, so I would not be surprised if OSes start dropping support soon after that date. Aside from the Pi 2 v1.1/1.2 (Cortex A7), everything after that supports 64 bit Linux.
Running 64 bit code on something with only 512MB is very painful, I
tried and gave up on a Pi 3A+, where as you can just about get away with
it on the 1GB Pi 3B+.
The problem with supporting ARMv6 boards, is that has to the lowest
common denominator for the user mode code running on all 32 bit Pi's
(the specific kernel for the architecture is always used). The prevents
the use of ARMv7 optimisations which would give a small performance improvement.
But most importantly for the OS developers would be the same minimum architecture level as Debian, removing the need to separately test all
the packages under ARMv6.
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