official packages for arm?

[Lundberg, Johannes]

Is building a subset of the packages an option? I mean, maybe only the top
10% of most frequent installed packages would cover 99% of all use cases
(numbers just a guess).. The remaining 1% would have to build from ports
themselves.

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Johannes Lundberg


On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 3:57 AM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>
wrote:

> 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
>
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