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Date:      Thu, 04 Nov 2021 11:19:22 +0000
From:      Dan Kotowski <dan.kotowski@a9development.com>
To:        Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Fwd: FreeBSD 14: Poll armv6 deprecated or removed
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> For 1. it's impossible to know the numbers of users currently

Maybe we can't "know" that number, but I think we can at least assess wheth=
er it's still popular or not by answering some downstream questions:

- For each package, how long does it take to build?

- For each package, how many times was it fetched by month?

That right there will at least tell us a rough lower barrier of the time th=
e community was saved.

- Are those numbers steadily going down?

- How far along the tail of the distribution are we?

It's far from accurate, but when compared across architectures we can proba=
bly make some sort of reasonable assessment about the general impact of no =
longer supporting armv6, which is better than throwing up our arms (pun ver=
y much intended) and saying it's impossible to know.

--Dan Kotowski



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