> I'm still not sure whether this can be a candidate 2.6 and 3.0.  Martin, 
> do you have any thoughts on this?

I think this qualifies as a new port. In the past, we have avoided
adding new ports in bugfix releases.

As for adding it to 2.7/3.1: I'm also skeptical. We have a (fairly) new
policy of not adding support for minority platforms, based on the belief
that it is more effort than it is worth. Now, ARM in itself might be
considered a minority platform (for Python); however, I can accept
continued support for ARM based on the number of units available in the
real world, and based on the fact that the chip is still being
manufactured. Whether we need to support some old Linux ABI, I really
don't know, and I'm -0.