On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Roberto Ragusa <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/23/2013 04:12 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Eventually there will be hardware available but I'm not sure when >> that will be as there's not been anything publicly announced. >> Ultimately we're very much in the prep stages for a mass rebuild of >> Fedora for aarch64 when we eventually get actual HW, at the moment a >> build of something like gcc takes days. > > Days to build gcc? Wow. The current emulated HW runs at around 200mhz or something horribly slow. > OpenSUSE managed to build the entire distribution without any hardware. > Definitely not a trivial task. > > http://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/cross-distro/2013-March/000425.html OpenSUSE don't do native compiles with OBS. They use distcc or something like that to cross compile some of their architectures. It was developed as part of the Intel/Nokia MeeGo use of OBS. Fedora has a requirement of native builds. Stage1/2 of a Fedora platform bring up can be cross compiled but we're now into stage 3 which is native builds. Fedora also has over double the amount of source packages to OpenSUSE and we're working with upstream to get fixes upstream (both Fedora mainline upstream and projects upstream) as we go rather than forking and fixing later all of which ends up being more time consuming in the short term but less overall. Peter [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/AArch64 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel