Re: Building packages for evbarm

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

> On Oct 29, 2021, at 5:52 PM, Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> I played a bit with various scenarios for building packages for evbarm-aarch64
> (for a Rasbperry Pi 3)
> 
> - Building natively on an USB attached disk.
> - Cross building from a fast amd64 host. I found this useful:
>  https://github.com/wfarr/pkgsrc/blob/master/doc/HOWTO-use-crosscompile
> - Building from a qemu aarch64 VM on a amd64 host. I ran it that way:
>  qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -cpu cortex-a53 -smp 4 -m 4g \
>      -drive file=/dev/rxbd2d,if=none,format=raw,cache=none,id=q1 \
>      -device virtio-blk-device,drive=q1 \
>      -net nic -net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no \
>      -bios QEMU_EFI.fd -nographic
> 
> Cross-building is fast but has a lot a failures, with some packages that
> just give up at configure stage when they detect a cross-compiler.
> 
> qemu is even slower than native build, hence it is not an option.
> 
> I came to the conclusion that native build is the best option, but it
> could be improved by using a faster aarch64 board with SATA disk
> attachment. Anyone has a well supported model to suggest for that?

ROCKPro64 with a PCIe SATA or maybe NVMe interface?  pine64.org sells a PCIe -> NVMe adapter board as well a nice NAS case for it, too.

-- thorpej