Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 11:25:48 +0100 (BST) From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: official packages for arm? Message-ID: <201407041025.s64APml0031649@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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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)? 2. Are there any specific arm considerations when building ports? To do with build time? To do with processor capabilities? 3. As a guideline, if using external disk for building ports (e.g. usb flash media, usb hard disk, usb SSD) is the I/O speed important? Or is the bottleneck the processor speed? 4. Of the three external media: (1) usb flash drive, (2) usb hard (moving parts) disk, (3) usb SSD, which is faster in broad terms. I understand YMMV. 5. The default RPI-B kernel is very lean: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/arm/conf/RPI-B?view=markup Still there are things which (I think) I don't need, e.g. USB ethernet. Will I gain anything by removing USB ethernet from the kernel? 6. What is spibus? Thanks Anton
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