I'm interested in the recompiling glibc thing to regain speed on specific hardware: has this been discussed in the ML previously ?
--- Gio 21/4/11, Stuart Winter <m-li...@biscuit.org.uk> ha scritto: > Da: Stuart Winter <m-li...@biscuit.org.uk> > Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] Slackware ARM on Small NAS (NS-K330) > A: "Slackware ARM port" <armedslack@lists.armedslack.org> > Data: Giovedì 21 Aprile 2011, 17:49 > > > I don't know, but I don't think you'll be happy with > it regardless. > > The transfer speeds are going to be terribly slow - > bottlenecking > > due to the usb2 speeds *and* the general wimpiness of > the hardware. > > Yeah having built the distribution on 287MHZ RiscPCs for a > couple of years > with 256MB RAM... I don't know how I kept going. I > guess because there > wasn't any better or faster supported arm hardware at the > time, so I > didn't have anything to wish I could have ;-) > > I wouldn't bother with it. Some devices use lower speed ARM > CPUs but their > usage (and software) is tuned to the device to match the > usage with the > device's specs. Slackware ARM is a generic > distribution built to run > on the widest range of products possible, at the expense of > speed in some > areas (which IMO can easily be re-gained by recompiling > glibc and some > other critical libraries; but that's another topic :) ). > > > _______________________________________________ > ARMedslack mailing list > ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org > http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack > _______________________________________________ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack