official packages for arm?

[Nathan Whitehorn]

Also something that could be done.
-Nathan

On 07/06/14 17:46, Lundberg, Johannes wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Johannes Lundberg
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 3:57 AM, Nathan Whitehorn 
> <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org <mailto: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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