Re: Sharing packages between RPI2 and RPI3B

[Nick Hudson <nick.hudson%gmx.co.uk@localhost>]

On 12/11/2020 17:41, Mayuresh wrote:
> I wish to use pkgsrc on RPI2 and RPI3B such that the packages made on one
> of them could be installed on the other.
>
> I'll be installing NetBSD 9.1 on both. Should I use earmv7hf or aarch64,
> keeping above requirement in mind?
>
>  From [1]
>
>     RPI2 uses "earmv7hf".
>     RPI2-1.2 uses "earmv7hf" or "aarch64" (armv8 CPU hardware)
>     RPI3 uses "earmv7hf" or "aarch64" (armv8 CPU hardware)
>
> Just confused reading the above. Would either of them work on both? And in
> that case how do I decide?
>
> [1] https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/raspberry_pi/

Of earmv7hf and aarch64 the only one that runs on all of the RPIs listed
is earmv7fhf.

The ARMv7 CPU in the original RPI2 can't run aarch64.

Nick