From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 4 16:21:55 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7C1EAD4F for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2014 16:21:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-oa0-f44.google.com (mail-oa0-f44.google.com [209.85.219.44]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 44CD929BF for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2014 16:21:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f44.google.com with SMTP id i7so1991018oag.3 for ; Fri, 04 Jul 2014 09:21:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=TvCI2fHn8O0S7B2r1g0OD5UV2YJq6Tuvb+++n+u+2Ds=; b=MRfRTo/FrsDJGYQTt1id3kdzM3S8uwMzYvYoRO3GrzS1Uz/WkJXbmv2LGWeG1NAq8F ixc3A1T6vz0Av8dsQQT75AG0rUGTia0lM4sSL9lXsW2q2rpahBouIv813+WFeDlEXJLJ WZLaYTx/R4jJ6NvbpQSG7uPqL+C9++7fgzYltuDwW+NQuuLFV1f8U9EoXF+b8LXvg1T9 Czf9dtN45xPV3wGyoqCPr6oaRJsdiOMnfetHJW+RURWRAIg/3nmyOvNk4A+HUSQHy1lZ BZ7bMp3qrk2GLKW5YcaG4ei6XNB9C3MhrPkXM2K7DPnruIN/IKnhB0jLp7t4xtpF1yjO GPTA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnjJxLFLtmZ3tF9mfTSIWotf71+QnbdPR5bHZjt7sMXdusxJX44XtzGdUz6T8g69VoTlbq2 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.220.131 with SMTP id pw3mr13523024oec.62.1404490908697; Fri, 04 Jul 2014 09:21:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.96.101 with HTTP; Fri, 4 Jul 2014 09:21:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <53B6D26F.8080905@freebsd.org> References: <201407041025.s64APml0031649@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <53B6D26F.8080905@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 10:21:48 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: official packages for arm? From: Tom Everett To: Nathan Whitehorn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18 Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 16:21:55 -0000 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 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