Re: FreeBSD build hardware?

From: Mark Millard <marklmi_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2022 01:01:01 UTC 
On 2022-Jun-2, at 17:04, Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 04:10:23PM -0700, Mark Millard wrote:
>> On 2022-Jun-2, at 16:00, Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 09:04:28PM +0000, Wall, Stephen wrote:
>>>> Does anyone know what hardware FreeBSD is using to build the ARM releases of FreeBSD 13?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> They are cross-built on amd64 hardware.
>>> 
>> 
>> It was unclear to me if the original question was trying
>> to span aarch64 as well vs., say, just spanning armv7/armv6.
>> 
>> aarch64 may well have a different answer.
>> 
> 
> No.  All architectures are built on amd64 hardware.

Interesting for FreeBSD system builds vs. FreeBSD port
builds (into packages):

aarch64 ports are built into packages via aarch64 hardware,
but targeting armv7 and armv6 for port builds is via amd64
and qemu for producing the packages.

Thanks for the background information.

===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com