Re: [sabayon-dev] the status of Sabayon on ARM

2013-01-19 Thread Michele
Can you elaborate on that? I had the same question tho I didn't want to add it to my previous email. Even at ARM (the company) they cross-compile whenever they can. mic On 19/01/2013 14:56, Fabio Erculiani wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Feeyo | NixDevs fe...@nixdevs.com wrote:

Re: [sabayon-dev] the status of Sabayon on ARM

2013-01-19 Thread Steven Cristian
The gcc*. Sorry for big typo :-) On Saturday, January 19, 2013, Steven Cristian wrote: Maybe this could comprise of some difficult process of preparing the kernel for cross compile. This takes time, and Fabio does not have that specific time. In this case, would be more ok to just buy the

Re: [sabayon-dev] the status of Sabayon on ARM

2013-01-19 Thread Fabio Erculiani
The vast majority of packages DO NOT SUPPORT cross compiling. End of the story. You seem to take cross compiler support for granted =__= -- Fabio Erculiani

Re: [sabayon-dev] the status of Sabayon on ARM

2013-01-19 Thread Steven Cristian
And that. People should know that cross compile is not always fulltime credible. On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Fabio Erculiani lx...@sabayon.org wrote: The vast majority of packages DO NOT SUPPORT cross compiling. End of the story. You seem to take cross compiler support for granted =__=

Re: [sabayon-dev] the status of Sabayon on ARM

2013-01-17 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Ian Whyman v00...@v00d00.net wrote: I personally don't think its worth the effort at the moment. I would rather see more time put in on things such as the installer. I would also rather we dropped a couple of the release versions, but you know - I like an

Re: [sabayon-dev] the status of Sabayon on ARM

2013-01-17 Thread SÅ‚awomir Nizio
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:59:10 +0100 Danilo Pianini danilo.pian...@gmail.com wrote: Thinking about priorities, I agree with Ian: the installer deserves our attention before the ARM support. + Given that, ARM is going to be more and more important in near future, so I see favourably the

Re: [sabayon-dev] the status of Sabayon on ARM

2013-01-17 Thread Wolfden
After messing around with ARM, it would not hurt my feelings to put it on hold or drop it. It's not ready for mainstream. The Linaro builds are probably the best I have messed with and at that rate, it's terribly slow. XBMC doesn't have the acceleration yet and fails miserably with video files.

Re: [sabayon-dev] the status of Sabayon on ARM

2013-01-17 Thread Michele
At home I have a couple of Raspberry Pis that I use as servers. One is a headless archlinux server with git, nfs4, some cronjobs and so on, the other one is a raspbian sometimes used with a screen. I have recently started using these low-consumption devices, but there are a lot more than just