On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 08:41:07PM +0100, basti wrote: > My arm hardware a only some raspi4 and 2 QNAP TS-219 behind a vDSL line. > Not the best, but can be used if needed. > One Pi can connect to dataceter. > > If it can be cross-compiled, perhaps I can share a dedicated quad-core > xeon, 64 GB RAM, 2TB HDD Server. > > Perhaps Amazon EC2 can be used?
My understanding is that Debian never cross compiles (maybe there are exceptions for m68k or something, not sure). Cross compiling tends to be a problem for things using autoconf since it expects to be able to compile and run a test program on the target. And some packages would take way to long to compile on small machines like a pi4 due to not enough ram. And for build machines, you want rack mountable machines with remote management. Not something that doesn't even have a power switch or ability to be restarted remotely if needed. The people running Debian's build systems obviously are interested in something reliable that won't cause problems and require a lot of manual intervention for however many years the release will be supported. No idea if AWS's arm systems are 64 bit only (many new arm server chips are) or if they also can run 32 bit arm code, and even if they can run 32 bit arm code, which level of the instruction set do they support? -- Len Sorensen
