official packages for arm?

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 07/06/14 10:37, Warner Losh wrote:
>
>>> 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.
> Short of a dedicated building cluster of about 30 ARM machines, doing a full package build on ARM within a few days is a pipe-dream. We might be able to get it under a week with qemu.
>

For sure. From the project perspective, though, I don't see a huge 
problem with it taking a few weeks on a handful of CPUs rather than a 
few days on 30. We've waited years for packages anyway. As a happy 
side-effect, we also get to stress-test the operating system.
-Nathan