dear Jochen,

tl;dr - just like Debian does, we do recommend using Raspian on rpi1
boards version 1 to take full advantage of their rather strange
architecture.

> On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 11:18:41AM +0100, Jochen Fahrner wrote:
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> > The only option I have: install from scratch with Devuans "armel" Image.
> > But this is not really an option, I will loose hardfloat, making my PI
> > even more slower than it already is. So I stay with Raspbian Jessie.
> >

On Mon, 06 Feb 2017, KatolaZ wrote:
> I agree that we might decide to have an armv6+VFP2 Devuan image for
> rpi, but please do not call it armhf, since the price would be
> increasing the amount of confusion already made by Raspbian.

I was indeed surprised to read an rpi1 is 'armhf' platform. Thanks
Katolaz and others for clarifying, did recall some discussion about
this in the past but lacked the details.

The main reasons why Devuan acts like Debian in this case is that in
Jessie we only operate to remove systemd, nothing else changes, while
we still rely heavily on Debian for the bulk of binary builds.

the Devuan installers for embedded architectures are all here
https://files.devuan.org/devuan_jessie_beta/embedded/

ciao