On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 11:05:59AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le Lun 22 Août 2005 10:29, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver a écrit : > > This is still somewhat arch specific code as it assumes iopl and the > > availability of an isa bus. I'm more thinking of packages which > > require a lot of RAM to build and run and are thus useless on archs > > which generally don't have that much RAM for example. > > for that part I agree with you. I can't understand that packages like > mozilla are built on all arch. most m68k/arm platforms are so slow, > that even running a simple encrypted connection eats a lot of CPU ...
(Note that the problem with SSH2 requiring minutes to be set up to crest had everything to do with optimization problems of the Diffie-Hellman algorithm on 68060 machines, not the CPU not being able to handle it -- slower 68040 CPUs can set up a connection in far less time than that, and 68060 machines without DH key exchange do, too) > but well, I suppose the line is hard to draw. Exactly, and that is why we don't try. I agree with you that mozilla is probably fairly useless on m68k. But if you start excluding packages, you'll fairly soon end up on a slipperly slope where you start excluding packages, and in the end you don't build any useful stuff anymore. -- The amount of time between slipping on the peel and landing on the pavement is precisely one bananosecond -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
