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Re: Which port for armv4l?



On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 11:04 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Reminds me that I wish there was some kind of "Debian from Source"
> effort which would make it easy to install specific packages by
> compiling them locally.  So you'd get a slightly Gentoo-ish flavor
> of Debian.

Are you talking about something like this?

https://wiki.debian.org/HelmutGrohne/rebootstrap

> In the above situation, you could then recompile locally the few
> packages whose performance matters such that they stick to armv4l
> instructions and hence avoid the slow emulation trap.

That should be easy to do now if you have the right toolchain.

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise


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