Consider adding support to ARMv6 boards

[pauleeeeee]

Why? At least five different Raspberry Pi models are ARMv6: Pi, Pi B, Pi Zero, Pi Zero W, and Pi Zero WH.

It is true that NodeJS has discontinued official support for ARMv6.

Unofficial builds do exist, located here: https://unofficial-builds.nodejs.org/download/release/

They are not hosted by Docker Hub however, so individual implementation would be necessary.

Thank you for your consideration

[mrstegeman]

I do understand the value in this. The main problem is the there are no ARMv6 images available for either node:12-buster-slim or debian:buster-slim.

[pauleeeeee]

Thanks Michael,

If I knew more about the topic I would be happy to implement a solution... I wonder if it's possible to create an image that suits the bill.

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I do understand the value in this. The main problem is the there are no ARMv6 images available for either node:12-buster-slim https://hub.docker.com/_/node?tab=tags&page=1&name=12-buster-slim or debian:buster-slim https://hub.docker.com/_/debian?tab=tags&page=1&name=buster-slim.

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[mrstegeman]

There is a Node 12 image for ARMv6 based on Alpine, rather than Debian, but Alpine uses a different libc which would probably cause a fair number of add-ons to break: https://hub.docker.com/r/arm32v6/node

[mrstegeman]

Also, Debian provides ARMv5 images, but Node is completely unsupported on that target.