arm64 as Tier 1 for FreeBSD 13

[Robert Clausecker]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 07:29:57AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <CAPyFy2BXWPVOJo+GOf83sZFrPHE80-QvdHeWrhi+Tdj0KDnThg at mail.gmail.com>, Ed Maste writes:
> >We don't do this today, but have the ability to do so for arm64 server
> >platforms. (Due to its design, freebsd-update does not work
> >particularly well on devices with slow root filesystems such as SD
> >cards.)
> 
> I don't think storage-technology should be used as a discriminant here.
> 
> First because it is quite trivial to plug in a quality USB SSD (WD
> passport for instance) and use that as root filesystem.
> 
> Second, just because freebsd-update takes a day to run, doesn't mean
> that people would not want it.

Indeed.  For example, on a Raspberry Pi 3B, it takes multiple days to
build world as the build must be done single threaded due to a lack of
RAM (building LLVM is the worst offender here).  Getting it down to one
day is already a huge quality of life improvement.

Yours,
Robert Clausecker

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