On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:59:37PM +0900, YAEGASHI Takeshi wrote: > Hi, > > In the article <[🔎] 20040305114224.GA12399@grep.be>, > Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be> wrote: > > > [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>] > > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 04:59:50PM +0900, YAEGASHI Takeshi wrote: > > > IMHO, there's no particular demand for having the *official* package > > > repository for any arch of sh. And platforms currently available are > > > generally too slow and short of resources to keep up with sid. > > > > That's crap. m68k is a lot more slow than most SH machines, and I am > > (mostly) keeping up with sid on my m68k mac; also, there is no real > > problem building sid for m68k, because we have 10 autobuilders or so for > > m68k (a bit less now, due to some more or less political issues). This > > mail is written at the console of my m68k mac, BTW :-) > > > > It's most certainly possible; whether the demand is there, that's > > something else. > > Indeed m68k is slower than sh, but m68k has many reliable platforms > like a workstation with ample resources and expandable I/O interfaces. > I've heard one of m68k buildd hosts have 128MB of memory and over 30GB > of disk. > > On the other hand, most sh platforms we have are embedded or consumer > products, not workstations. They have minimal amount of memory > (mostly 32MB or so) and none of secondary storage devices. Moreover, > they are not expandable easily. > > I think they are almost unusable for the self development of sid. > 32MB without swap is definitely insufficient to build something with > gcc 3.3. Hm. Could theoretically be worked around by using NFS, NBD, or some other network storage protocol; but I see your point. > Only some special evaluation boards like SolutionEngine SH-4 are > usable for such a heavy development. But they are uncommon and much > expensive, as gotom wrote in another mail. > > Of course, I really respect the effort of Debian/m68k people; I wish I > also had time and passion as you have. :-> Heh :) Well, we have something that works, and only needs to be maintained (as opposed to a vapourware port, which still needs to be built). That helps, I guess. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http://nl.linux.org "Stop breathing down my neck." "My breathing is merely a simulation." "So is my neck, stop it anyway!" -- Voyager's EMH versus the Prometheus' EMH, stardate 51462.
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