well after the flood of interest shown in the previous thread it seems that once it comes down to the decision that not many are stepping up - so i will try to move this forward
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 8:19 AM, fauno <[email protected]> wrote: > who will be working on the arm port and wants to get an eoma68 card? i agree with fauno here that rather than the original suggestion to ask for a separate unit for everyone on the official team - the more reasonable concern is: "who will actually need one?" - i myself, for example, have offered to help with this but i am not among the official developers so i see the original proposal as misguided - as i mentioned when this first came up, i added myself and oaken-source to the etherpad as potential packagers - i have seen no one else actually say even that much let alone that "yes i will handle this package ... and this package ..." - this should be the key discussion for the moment On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 9:04 AM, Megver83 <[email protected]> wrote: > With "working on the ARM port" you mean to just make Parabola work in > the EOMA68? El 11/05/17 a las 17:10, Joseph Graham escribió: > Correct me if I'm wrong but most of the packages in ARM port come > straight from Arch ARM? > Maybe we just need 1 to see if Parabola works OK on it. i add this point also because i have seen conflicting opinions on this topic - to be clear, regardless of whether the packages "come from" arch - that is only to say that the build recipes are unmodified from the arch version but the actual binaries will be re-build by parabola - yes? - some have said quite reasonably, that the actual packaging should be done on the more powerful build server that already exists for that purpose - others have said that arm packages should be built on an arm device - my opinion would be that the EOMA cards would be strictly necessary only for custom packages and debugging and otherwise for verification purposes - but that it is more sensible to use the build server for production On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 8:19 AM, fauno <[email protected]> wrote: > who's closer to the eoma68's and can get them and re-mail them? the answer to this is unclear to me - it seems that the company itself is in UK and they are talking about a manufacturer in Taiwan - but they are offering free shipping to customers in the US only - this would imply that production shipping will originate from the US but that says nothing of the initial prototypes that may be on-hand now _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
