Hi Sam,

That's an interesting piece of hardware indeed!
Another reason that I was looking for "server-class" ARM machines is purely
because I was assuming that for one of these boards to be in a data center,
they would need some sort of rack mounting. Do you know if anything like
that exists for this board?

Alex, where is the code that builds the xdg-app runtimes on build.gnome.org,
and how often/what is the condition that triggers a runtime rebuild/upload?
I'm thinking that if it's not something prohibitive in terms of bandwidth,
we could perhaps host a board in our office as a low-tech starting point.

Thanks,
Cosimo

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 5:46 AM, Sam Thursfield <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello
>
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 1:01 AM, Cosimo Cecchi <[email protected]> wrote:
> > At the West Coast hackfest, we brought up the topic of building xdg-app
> > runtimes for other architectures; they're currently only built for
> x86-64.
> >
> > For x86 systems there should not be many additional requirements on the
> > hardware side, but for ARM builds we need machines to natively build the
> > runtimes on.
>
> At Codethink we've had good experiences with using NVIDIA Jetson
> developer boards as build machines. Much better experience than we've
> had with "server-class" ARM hardware in fact.
>
> I have one on my desk that builds all the Baserock reference systems
> for ARM on every new commit. Uptime is currently 19 days but I've seen
> them go for months with no noticable instability, and they are pretty
> fast (slower than x86 for building, obviously, but not painfully so).
> The product page is: https://developer.nvidia.com/jetson-tk1
>
> The Jetson is also cool because you can get 3D (EGL) working with the
> open source Nouveau driver. We showed Weston running on a last year on
> a Jetson with no binary blobs, I'm not sure if anyone's tried
> Mutter/Gnome-Shell but presumably it's a similar amount of effort.
>
> Sam
>
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