On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 09:51:33AM +0000, James Cowgill wrote: > Hi, > > On 22/11/16 00:17, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 09:22:37AM +0100, James Cowgill wrote: > >> On 15/09/16 01:15, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > >>> Thank you for the clarification! Hm, I wonder if there aren't very > >>> many mipsel build hosts, or if it's just that they're very slow? If > >>> the problem is that there aren't enough, I wonder if it would be > >>> useful to write a wiki page linked to from "ways to contribute to > >>> Debian" detailing the process of how to repurpose an old router as a > >>> buildd host. ;-) > >> > >> At the moment there are more mipsel buildds than mips, but the mipsel > >> buildds are also used for building mips64el so they can seem a bit slow > >> at times as they have double the work to do. Extra hardware is always > >> useful, but I'm not sure an old router would be anywhere near powerful > >> enough to operate a buildd :) > > > > Haha yeah, it would be more of a proof-of-concept than a practical > > thing ;-) Out of curiousity, do you know if most mipsel buildd hosts > > are running on old SGI gear, on those new "Warrior" boards, or on > > something even more exotic and expensive? > > There's a list here: > https://wiki.debian.org/MIPSPort#Build_daemons_.26_porter_boxes > > Most of them are Cavium Octeon based boards except for a few Loongson > 3As. A lot of the really old SGI stuff won't actually run stretch.
Wow, I've never heard of Octeon before, though Loongson is familiar. Thanks James! Nick
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