official packages for arm?

[Michael Tuexen]

On 04 Jul 2014, at 20:39, Tim Kientzle <tim at kientzle.com> wrote:

> 
> On Jul 4, 2014, at 3:25 AM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bris.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Few silly questions, please don't shoot.
>> 
>> 1. Why are there no official arm packages?
> 
> Nathan answered this pretty completely, I think.
> 
>> 2. Are there any specific arm considerations when
>> building ports? To do with build time? To do with
>> processor capabilities?
> 
> Biggest issue is simply that key ports still
> don't build on ARM.  For example, a default
> build of git breaks because libgcrypt requires
> GCC 4.7 port, which doesn't build on ARM.
Is it possible to build libgcrypt with clang?
> 
> 
>> 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?
> 
> My impression is that I/O is the major problem.
> Especially for larger packages where the compiler
> can end up swapping.
> 
>> 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.
> 
> I haven't experimented with different USB drives.
> 
>> 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?
> 
> The on-board Ethernet for RPi is actually connected
> through USB.  If you remove USB Ethernet, you have
> removed Ethernet.
> 
> Removing what you don't need will free up more RAM,
> which is always good.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tim
> 
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