On 03/20/2012 01:42 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:54:36PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > > > The hardware is way slower ... so we can just build on faster hardware > > > (x86_64). Which is the only sane way to do it. > > > Trying to build on ARM directly is kind of a gimmick but nothing one > > > can seriously use to build a whole operating system. (Yes it works but > > > it is way to slow). > > > > Well, we've done a number of mass rebuilds, a complete bootstrap from > > scratch, and several releases now. So, it might be a "gimmick", but it > > works. We need to stop thinking of ARM as it was 10 years ago. This > > year, we're going to see systems with 288+ cores in 2U of rack space. > > Why are you even bringing up this as yet unreleased hardware in the context > of "arm32 builds are slow" ? Even if it was released today, it doesn't > solve this problem at all. The hardware I'm citing there is 32-bit, and it's coming later *this year*. So I'm not conflating the two at all here, honestly :) > "Arm32 as primary" and "Arm64 as primary" are two entirely separate discussions, > and conflating the two isn't solving anything. I agree. Don't worry, we'll be getting to AArch64 later :) Jon. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
