On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 09:27:53PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > > High-performance evaluation boards like for the SB1250 or (soon) the > > > RM9000x2 (Both dual-CPU on a die, 1GHz etc.) are probably the fastest you > > > can get and consume very little power - but they're also rather expensive. > > > In addition you can switch their endianess with a dip switch and reboot > > > which may be welcome in your case, I guess? > > > > I have friends at Broadcom and might be able to get a board somewhat > > cheaply. > > Is that the best way to go? > > Knowing the constraints you have for new machines in your house, I'd > say so.
Actually, those constraints are gone, we're moving the build cluster to the office (real machine room and all that). > > What I'm looking for is a fast, stable build platform. No graphics, it's > > headless, I need networking (obviously). All of this is so we can support > > keeping MIPs in our build cluster. > > That was my assumption and both Origin and eval boards suffice these > constraints. OK, what do people use for a Linux distro for the SIBYTE board? -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com
