On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Hector Oron <hector.o...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Disadvantages: > • Massive over-use of disk space. (Nowadays, storage disk is cheap, I disagree! While I just bought a 1TB disk for $50 (USB WD Essentials), the Efika MX only comes with 4GB (TO2, rev 1.1) or 8GB (TO3, rev 1.3) of disk space. The Smartbook may only have 16GB. This is a lot of space for an ARM distro (Ubuntu Xfce is ~1.5GB) but it leaves little room for anything else if you're into watching videos or compiling a kernel (add 1GB) or like to keep stuff around. I think it's rather annoying to go down the path of having a distro that assumes you have gigabytes of space when you may actually only have a minimal (512MB, 1GB) NAND flash on an ARM system as standard. > and we can implement `dpkg' filters to save space) Can this be done on a per-machine basis at the installer? >> (BTW... if you want to run both armel and armhf under multiarch... which >> package's libc gets to own ld.so? :P) > > I can't see a use case to run 'armel' binaries on 'armhf' rootfs if > hardware supports it and software is free. As long as the armel binary doesn't use any floating point at all, it will work, though. Just make sure ld.so is built with soft and not softfp and armel can own it. -- Matt Sealey <m...@genesi-usa.com> Product Development Analyst, Genesi USA, Inc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktim6v6vba2mejv996gfvjdbmfh_w=oqgrajg+...@mail.gmail.com
