That's my thinking too. I know building is supposed to put a platform through its paces, but virtualizing the more exotic platforms would ease a lot of package building.
-- Edwin (on the move) > On May 22, 2015, at 12:26 PM, Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote: > > >> On May 22, 2015, at 8:50 AM, Henrik Lund Kramshøj <h...@kramse.org> wrote: >> >> >>> On 22 May 2015, at 16:40, Philip Cheney <phi...@packwidth.net> wrote: >>> >>> ... >>> I've been building packages as I need them on a Beaglebone Black and I can >>> go ahead and start a bulk build. >>> >>> While it's building, I'll pick up something a little more suitable for the >>> task, too. It looks like the Wandboard is fairly well supported and the >>> Quad model has a bit more punch for the cost. Does anyone know of any >>> caveats to using that system? >> >> I am a happy BBB user and will be happy add some EUR/$ for donation to >> someone willing to build packages. >> >> I will prefer to have something permanent setup, but if we start out getting >> some hardware and estimating the "cost" time, hardware etc. for doing this >> it would be great. > > FreeBSD has had good luck with using userland qemu emulation to build > packages. More stable than random hardware that was never intended to have > such a load on it, and quite a bit faster than these little boards. > > Warner >
