[ARMedslack] Slackware ARM on Small NAS (NS-K330)

[Davide]

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-lists at biscuit.org.uk> ha scritto:

> Da: Stuart Winter <m-lists at biscuit.org.uk>
> Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] Slackware ARM on Small NAS (NS-K330)
> A: "Slackware ARM port" <armedslack at 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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