Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 10:21:48 -0600 From: Tom Everett <tom@khubla.com> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: official packages for arm? Message-ID: <CAB3ij4DVCnPDrc1thJBvvqzHe0hhF2V0_TGdw7VeqWH-h02LrA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53B6D26F.8080905@freebsd.org> References: <201407041025.s64APml0031649@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <53B6D26F.8080905@freebsd.org>
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How much hardware does it actually need? For that matter, how do the other architectures handle this problem? On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 07/04/14 03:25, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > >> Few silly questions, please don't shoot. >> >> 1. Why are there no official arm packages? >> Lack of interest from users? >> Lack of volunteers maintaining the arm portscluster >> infrastructure? >> The fact that arm is actually several implementations >> (RPI, wandboard, etc. OABI vs EABI)? >> > > The basic issue is that building packages takes a lot of CPU time (it's > about a CPU-month with moderately fast CPUs) and the project doesn't have > the hardware to do it. > -Nathan > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding - Douglas MacArthur
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