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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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