Re: EM64T Machine available for porting
Alex Perry schrieb: That's true. Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:33:29PM -0800, Alex Perry wrote: I think it would be great to have a pure64 AMD64 machine rebuild its own packages, reinstall them, then rebuild the whole archive. In parallel, have an EM64T machine do exactly the same thing - also for the current state of the source repository. One problem with that is that alot of new sources become available. Even for testing. You would have to take a snapshot of all sources and binaries to do that. Kurt Shouldn't be a problem with a local mirror for the 2 boxes just stopy the sync process for the time needed. I would do it myself but I don't have a unused EM64T box in pyiscal range right now :-( greets Uwe -- Jetzt will man das Internet nicht einfach ein paar Leuten wie der IETF überlassen, die wissen, was sie tun. Es ist zu wichtig geworden. - Scott Bradner http://www.highspeed-firewall.de/adamantix/ http://www.x-tec.de
Re: EM64T Machine available for porting
That's true. Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:33:29PM -0800, Alex Perry wrote: I think it would be great to have a pure64 AMD64 machine rebuild its own packages, reinstall them, then rebuild the whole archive. In parallel, have an EM64T machine do exactly the same thing - also for the current state of the source repository. One problem with that is that alot of new sources become available. Even for testing. You would have to take a snapshot of all sources and binaries to do that. Kurt -- Alexander R Perry GE Infrastructure, Security Center of Excellence for Magnetics Group Leader, Advanced Systems T: 858 605 5514 F: 858 605 5501 D: *722-1404 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.gesecurity.com/ 15175 Innovation Drive San Diego, CA, 92128, USA Quantum Magnetics, Inc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: EM64T Machine available for porting
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:33:29PM -0800, Alex Perry wrote: > > I think it would be great to have a pure64 AMD64 machine rebuild its own > packages, reinstall them, then rebuild the whole archive. > In parallel, have an EM64T machine do exactly the same thing - also for > the current state of the source repository. One problem with that is that alot of new sources become available. Even for testing. You would have to take a snapshot of all sources and binaries to do that. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: EM64T Machine available for porting
Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:15:50PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: I know most of the AMD64 work has already been done on AMD hardware, and I'm grateful for that work. But I obtained this EM64T box for Debian so we can *test* whether Debian works rather than just assume it will. We got various reports that it worked, but it sure couldn't hurt to give it a good test. :) I think it would be great to have a pure64 AMD64 machine rebuild its own packages, reinstall them, then rebuild the whole archive. In parallel, have an EM64T machine do exactly the same thing - also for the current state of the source repository. Then see whether there are any packages where one of them fails and the other succeeds ... Hmm ... 8-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: EM64T Machine available for porting
I hope it works! I have 8 1850's (2.8 GHz EM64T's) running "unstable" at the moment (with the test SMP kernel), and have another 34 on order! Adrian Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre University of Cambridge -Original Message- From: Kurt Roeckx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 March 2005 22:25 To: Martin Michlmayr Cc: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: EM64T Machine available for porting On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:15:50PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > I know most of the AMD64 work has already been done on AMD hardware, > and I'm grateful for that work. But I obtained this EM64T box for > Debian so we can *test* whether Debian works rather than just assume > it will. We got various reports that it worked, but it sure couldn't hurt to give it a good test. :) Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: EM64T Machine available for porting
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:15:50PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > I know most of the AMD64 work has already been done on AMD hardware, > and I'm grateful for that work. But I obtained this EM64T box for > Debian so we can *test* whether Debian works rather than just assume > it will. We got various reports that it worked, but it sure couldn't hurt to give it a good test. :) Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: EM64T Machine available for porting
* Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-15 23:09]: > > It would be nice if someone could re-build the whole archive since > > this would give the box some good stress testing. > > I'm not sure why you're asking this? Is it because it's an Intel? Yes. > Do you think it's going to behave differently than an AMD chip? No, but building the archive would give us more evidence. Also, it stress tests the hardware and kernel and I assume (w/o checking) that there are some differences in the kernel support for Intel and AMD x86_64 chips. I know most of the AMD64 work has already been done on AMD hardware, and I'm grateful for that work. But I obtained this EM64T box for Debian so we can *test* whether Debian works rather than just assume it will. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: EM64T Machine available for porting
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:58:18PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > It would be nice if someone could re-build the whole archive since > this would give the box some good stress testing. I'm not sure why you're asking this? Is it because it's an Intel? Do you think it's going to behave differently than an AMD chip? Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: EM64T Machine available for porting
* Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-15 16:46]: > Intel has kindly loaned us a very nice em64t machine which is > currently running amd64/pure64. I can give people accounts if > they're interested and could do something useful on it, just contact > me off list and whatnot. The box is physically hosted at my house > off my less-than-speedy ADSL line, but I've got a local Debian > mirror at least. It would be nice if someone could re-build the whole archive since this would give the box some good stress testing. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]