As Amit explained in the blog post you've referred to, the port currently in progress does in fact target ARMv5 as a baseline and selectively optimize for ARMv7.
The steps to use the official bits on ARMv5 or ARMv6 should be, well, none at all. Much of the initial development work has been done on ARMv5 devices because they're plentiful, and I expect that much of the ARM community will be testing Ubuntu on ARMv5 devices until ARMv7 devices become more widely available.
I can't comment on any future plans.
If you have further questions, you're welcome to ask them (politely) on the ubuntu-mobile mailing list.
Posted Nov 15, 2008 23:50 UTC (Sat) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639)
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testing Ubuntu on ARMv5...does that mean there will be an ARMv5 Ubuntu "release"? You didn't actually say, and I'm not going to assume "testing" means "release". It could mean a PPA for all I know. If there is going to be an ARMv5 release... just throw out another press release.. or and addendum...or an announcement on a mailinglist anywhere that can be referenced for n810 owners who aspire to run Ubuntu.
Failing that is there going to be something for ARMv5/ARMv6 like the non-supported community powerpc/sparc ports already open inside Ubuntu?