I think it has but I don't recall anybody having done it.
What hardware?
I'm quite interested in it because I'm still thinking about building
armedslack for armv5te (it's armv4 at the moment).
We need some valid test cases.
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Davide wrote:
> I'm interested in the recompiling glibc thing to regain speed on specific
> hardware: has this been discussed in the ML previously ?
>
> --- Gio 21/4/11, Stuart Winter <m-li...@biscuit.org.uk> ha scritto:
>
> > Da: Stuart Winter <m-li...@biscuit.org.uk>
> > Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] Slackware ARM on Small NAS (NS-K330)
> > A: "Slackware ARM port" <armedslack@lists.armedslack.org>
> > Data: Giovedì 21 Aprile 2011, 17:49
> >
> > > I don't know, but I don't think you'll be happy with
> > it regardless.
> > > The transfer speeds are going to be terribly slow -
> > bottlenecking
> > > due to the usb2 speeds *and* the general wimpiness of
> > the hardware.
> >
> > Yeah having built the distribution on 287MHZ RiscPCs for a
> > couple of years
> > with 256MB RAM... I don't know how I kept going. I
> > guess because there
> > wasn't any better or faster supported arm hardware at the
> > time, so I
> > didn't have anything to wish I could have ;-)
> >
> > I wouldn't bother with it. Some devices use lower speed ARM
> > CPUs but their
> > usage (and software) is tuned to the device to match the
> > usage with the
> > device's specs. Slackware ARM is a generic
> > distribution built to run
> > on the widest range of products possible, at the expense of
> > speed in some
> > areas (which IMO can easily be re-gained by recompiling
> > glibc and some
> > other critical libraries; but that's another topic :) ).
> >
> >
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