On Wed, Jul 1, 2026, at 23:23, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

Debian has previously removed the orion/kirkwood kernel
binary from the armel distro, but building custom kernels
from the Debian source code should keep working, so
removing the board files after the 6.12 release ensures
that this remains possible for the Debian Trixie release,
assuming this will use the 6.12 LTS kernel.

I noticed this paragraph is outdated and have now replaced
it with

|  Debian and OpenWRT no longer support orion5x, and buildroot
|  could keep using linux-7.3-LTS for a few more years.

    Arnd