From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 30 14:19:12 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3802EDBB for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:19:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org) Received: from duck.symmetricom.us (duck.symmetricom.us [206.168.13.214]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1E8F8FC0C for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:19:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from damnhippie.dyndns.org (daffy.symmetricom.us [206.168.13.218]) by duck.symmetricom.us (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q9UEJAGt062386 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:19:10 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org) Received: from [172.22.42.240] (revolution.hippie.lan [172.22.42.240]) by damnhippie.dyndns.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q9UEIlCf005565; Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:18:47 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org) Subject: RE: announcing the availability of packages for the Arm architecture From: Ian Lepore To: Alie Tan In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:18:47 -0600 Message-ID: <1351606727.1120.17.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the StrongARM Processor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:19:12 -0000 On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 18:34 +0800, Alie Tan wrote: > Hi, > > What is your consideration to build FreeBSD-9-ARM packages only? ( > http://wiki.freebsd.org/PackagesOnArm) > > Seems most of us use FreeBSD10-CURRENT to test FreeBSD-ARM > > Regards, > Alie T I use -current because that's what it takes to get anyone in the freebsd community to pay attention to you. If you show up with "I have this problem _______ it's happening on freebsd 8.3," the only answer you'll get is "Does it happen with -current?" All in all, I have the impression that not many people "use" freebsd on arm at all. Lots of people play with it briefly, then wander away because even if they do some work and try to contribute it back it never gets committed, I think because there aren't enough committers with enough time, the right hardware to test on, and so forth. -- Ian