[cfarm-users] Is there any computer with armhf architecture on cfarm?

[Martin Guy]

On 06/07/25 09:54, Jaroslav Fojtik via cfarm-users wrote:
> Is there any accessible computer with armhf architecture on cfarm?

armhf isn'r a hardware type, it's the Debian name for their repo

compiled for the armv7 with hardware VFP math instructions.


If instead you mean Raspberry Pi, their hardware baseline is ARM v6

and someone had to recompile all of Debian as armv6 VFP to make Raspbian,

all because someone wanted an extra 20% of speed in the cryptography

code and in long integer divisions by using the count-leading-zeroes 
instructions.

Cheers. Nice one.


For generic cfarm use, I guess some admin would need to set a chroot running

on an existng ARM7-with-VFP host and make sshd listen on some port.


An a user, you may get somewhere with debootstrap --foreign and 
qemu-arm-system

to run the Debian (or Raspbian) armhf distro, presumably on the fastest 
ARM system

you can find, hoping it uses the native FP instructions.


     M