Re: Proposal to replace/extend current armhf builders

2014-01-23 Thread peter green
peter green wrote: Steve McIntyre wrote: if we're happy that they're stable and supportable. Having had a 2GB nitrogen6x running as a raspbian buildd for a while I would consider it stable and supportable. We did have some crashes on both the nitrogen6x and the wandboard quad caused by

Re: Proposal to replace/extend current armhf builders

2014-01-23 Thread Robert Nelson
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 8:11 PM, peter green plugw...@p10link.net wrote: peter green wrote: Steve McIntyre wrote: if we're happy that they're stable and supportable. Having had a 2GB nitrogen6x running as a raspbian buildd for a while I would consider it stable and supportable. We did

Re: Proposal to replace/extend current armhf builders

2013-11-15 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 00:23:55 + Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: Arm64 kit will be even more expensive/unobtanium for a while. Although I expect the situation to be very different laster next year. We can schedule a reevaluation of getting server class hardware next year then. Until then

Re: Proposal to replace/extend current armhf builders

2013-11-15 Thread Ricardo Mones
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:37:15PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 00:23:55 + Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: [...] Or Wanda or the Nitrogen6x we've just kindly been offered. Or those, yes. One of the issues is getting boards with more RAM than the current

Re: Proposal to replace/extend current armhf builders

2013-11-15 Thread Eric Nelson
Thanks Ricardo, On 11/15/2013 06:18 AM, Ricardo Mones wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:37:15PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 00:23:55 + Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: [...] Or Wanda or the Nitrogen6x we've just kindly been offered. Or those, yes. One of

Re: Proposal to replace/extend current armhf builders

2013-11-15 Thread Riku Voipio
I think we need to bash out some criteria for deciding during the mini-debconf. i.e deciding how we decide (or just make a decision if possible). Better to decide now rather than wait for the perfect solution next year (which might have other problems other than price). Better is

Re: Proposal to replace/extend current armhf builders

2013-11-15 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 17:50:33 +0200 Riku Voipio riku.voi...@iki.fi wrote: Wearing my armel buildd maintainer hat, I don't feel the same urgency as you seem to have - perhaps that's because the armel buildd'd are less ram-starved than the locos? Yeah, you're spoiled, iirc, one buildd has 3GB of

Re: Proposal to replace/extend current armhf builders

2013-11-15 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 08:14:32 -0700 Eric Nelson eric.nel...@boundarydevices.com wrote: Surely it adds something to the final price tag but seems the Nitrogen6X boards can be easily upgraded to 2GB: http://boundarydevices.com/products/2gb-ddr3-upgrade-for-nitrogen6x/ So maybe

Re: Proposal to replace/extend current armhf builders

2013-11-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 05:50:33PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: One thing I'd like to avoid is growing the diversity of buildd's we have. If we have many different buildd hardware, each of buildd classes needs different kind of maintainence. So when add a new type of hw for buildd's, it should go in

Re: Proposal to replace/extend current armhf builders

2013-11-15 Thread Eric Nelson
Hi Konstantinos, On 11/15/2013 09:33 AM, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 08:14:32 -0700 Eric Nelson eric.nel...@boundarydevices.com wrote: Surely it adds something to the final price tag but seems the Nitrogen6X boards can be easily upgraded to 2GB:

Re: Proposal to replace/extend current armhf builders

2013-11-15 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/11/15 Konstantinos Margaritis mar...@freevec.org: Riku Voipio riku.voi...@iki.fi wrote: Wearing my armel buildd maintainer hat, I don't feel the same urgency as you seem to have - perhaps that's because the armel buildd'd are less ram-starved than the locos? Yeah, you're

Re: Proposal to replace/extend current armhf builders

2013-11-15 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 20:23:58 +0100 Hector Oron hector.o...@gmail.com wrote: To add up more options, we received a donation offer from OpenBlocks people as well, those machines have an ArmadaXP SoC and have miniPCI slot to extend hardware up to 3GB RAM. Nobuhiro and Thomas Petazzoni have been

Re: Proposal to replace/extend current armhf builders

2013-11-15 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/11/15 Konstantinos Margaritis mar...@freevec.org: On the other side of things, Boston guys are aware of our interests and they need to do some internal discussion and maybe allocate some budget for special price or donation, I'll come back with more once they let us know. Also,

Re: Proposal to replace/extend current armhf builders

2013-11-15 Thread peter green
Steve McIntyre wrote: if we're happy that they're stable and supportable. Having had a 2GB nitrogen6x running as a raspbian buildd for a while I would consider it stable and supportable. We did have some crashes on both the nitrogen6x and the wandboard quad caused by the eglibc testsuite

Re: Proposal to replace/extend current armhf builders

2013-11-15 Thread Eric Nelson
Thanks for the details Peter, On 11/15/2013 06:03 PM, peter green wrote: Steve McIntyre wrote: if we're happy that they're stable and supportable. Having had a 2GB nitrogen6x running as a raspbian buildd for a while I would consider it stable and supportable. We did have some crashes on

Re: Proposal to replace/extend current armhf builders

2013-11-15 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 7:03 PM, peter green plugw...@p10link.net wrote: Steve McIntyre wrote: if we're happy that they're stable and supportable. Having had a 2GB nitrogen6x running as a raspbian buildd for a while I would consider it stable and supportable. We did have some crashes on

Re: Proposal to replace/extend current armhf builders

2013-11-14 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
(resending for the 3rd time to the list, for some reason my emails only appear on the list only if I sign them) On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 22:21:00 + peter green plugw...@p10link.net wrote: Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: So, my counter-proposal to that is that we get instead some cheap easy to

Re: Proposal to replace/extend current armhf builders

2013-11-14 Thread Shawn Landden
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Wookey woo...@wookware.org wrote: So, my counter-proposal to that is that we get instead some cheap easy to replace boards like the Arndale [4] or the Odroid-XU [5]. Personally I'd prefer the XU as it's better equipped, but I'd go with either choice if people

Proposal to replace/extend current armhf builders

2013-11-13 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Hi all, Here is some food for thought for the minidebconf that starts tomorrow in Cambridge [1]. Unfortunately I will not make it there, though I wish I did, but I'm in the process of job searching at the moment[2] and could not afford the expense. Anyway, since I got nothing close to a proper