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I'm using several original BCM2835 Raspberry Pis and Pi Zeros (original) to compile pkgsrc packages for NetBSD on earmv4 and earmv5 because the newer ARM CPUs w
by johnklos 3y ago
I'm using several original BCM2835 Raspberry Pis and Pi Zeros (original) to compile pkgsrc packages for NetBSD on earmv4 and earmv5 because the newer ARM CPUs won't run anything below earmv6. There are some instructions the newer CPUs don't support that'd need to be emulated.
With a USB attached SSD, they're quite reliable and run for many months at a time, compiling non-stop with no issues.
- moffkalast 3y agoYeah anything older than the Pi 3 with armv7 is also more or less unusable in terms of OS deps, since there just aren't many package releases being maintained for v6 and below.
- johnklos 3y agoI'm using them precisely to make packages available for them, so I don't think it's fair at all to say they're unusable. The OS is fully, 100% supported, so we're not even talking about that. See: http://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/arm/ http://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/arm/ The number of packages available is decent and is only improving: https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/earmv4/ https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/earmv4/
- moffkalast 3y agoAh I'm not talking about NetBSD there specifically, mainly Ubuntu and Debian since that's what I typically use. But in general the OS support isn't very good.
- johnklos 3y agoYou're replying to a post about NetBSD ;) Your statement, "But in general the OS support isn't very good," would be better framed as "But in general the Linux OS support isn't very good," because OS support for pre-earmv7hf and pre-aarch64 is excellent in NetBSD.
- moffkalast 3y agoYep, I think we understand each other now.