On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 06:16:05PM +0100, Dirk Müller wrote: >Hi cross-distro readers, > >the openSUSE on ARM team was quite busy the last few weeks with >getting openSUSE 12.3 for AArch64 ready. At the time of this post, we >have finished around 4000-4100 packages (out of ~ 6000) of the current >state of the openSUSE 12.3 project for AArch64. With those >successfully built packages, we’re also able to build a regular >openSUSE image for you to try and run in the ARMv8 System emulator >(ARMv8 Foundation Model). > >This is a huge achievement and milestone for us, thanks to lots of >helpful hands in openSUSE. Just to put this into context: This is not >a minimal system with a couple of toolchain packages. It is also not >an embedded variant of a Linux environment. No, this is the full >featured, standard openSUSE distribution as you’re used to, ported to >AArch64, up and running. We have built it based on (slightly newer >versions of) standard openSUSE 12.3 packages, and the changes are >mostly already merged back into openSUSE Factory. For all we know it’s >also more successful package builds than any other Linux distribution >has on AArch64! If you’d like to see the status yourself, please check >out the OBS repository we created for this [1].
Awesome work, guys! :-) Cheers, -- Steve McIntyre [email protected] <http://www.linaro.org/> Linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs _______________________________________________ cross-distro mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-distro
