On 05/22/15 13:26, Warner Losh wrote: ... > 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.
Think about that a bit. Emulated hw is more stable than the real thing? That means one of two things: 1) The real HW sucks, and thus, should not be used. 2) They code to the emulator, not real HW, and thus the SW sucks, and should not be used. There's a reason the OpenBSD project does only native builds. You pretty well nailed it right there. The ARM platform needs work, not more hardware, this is why it was demoted from a "supported" platform to a "current porting effort" around 5.6. The people working on the armv7 platform are brilliant people, but like most brilliant people, there is no shortage of things for them to work on, both for pay and for fun. Last I was building packages for it (5.6 -- and was told to stop), the platform would just crash, trying to keep a dpb cluster running was basically reverse wack-a-mole (trying to quickly restart systems that crashed). That's not supposed to happen. This isn't a case of "never intended to have such load on it", it just needs some work. Nick.
