Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 09:12:31 -0700 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: official packages for arm? Message-ID: <53B6D26F.8080905@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201407041025.s64APml0031649@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <201407041025.s64APml0031649@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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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
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