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		puzzlingcaptcha on Aug 14, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Debian 11 Was it really just partition size? I vaguely remember Buster cutting support for armel below ARMv5T and the Kirkwood SoC was not quite making it.

0x0 on Aug 14, 2021 | [–]

The release notes say you can pin the debian10 kernel* and upgrade everything else. So my impression is 500kb of flash is the only blocker

* and then you're on your own for security and compatibility issues

cbmuser on Aug 15, 2021 | [–]

Yes, the baseline for “armel” is ARMv5T. But IIRC we made the switch already for Buster.

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