official packages for arm?

[Tom Everett]

How much hardware does it actually need?  For that matter, how do the other
architectures handle this problem?



On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>
wrote:

> 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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