Re: arm build hardware

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, peter green wrote: peter green wrote: However just as I was becoming reasonablly happy with the nitrogen6x's stability I happened to notice on twitter that wandboard,org have released a board with the same basic hardware for about twice the price. That should have said ab

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On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 06:47:00PM +0100, peter green wrote: > peter green wrote: > >However just as I was becoming reasonablly happy with the > >nitrogen6x's stability I happened to notice on twitter that > >wandboard,org have released a board with the same basic hardware > >for about twice the pr

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peter green wrote: However just as I was becoming reasonablly happy with the nitrogen6x's stability I happened to notice on twitter that wandboard,org have released a board with the same basic hardware for about twice the price. That should have said about half the price -- To UNSUBSC

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On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 01:02:31AM +0100, peter green wrote: > Ok to fill in on some developments. > > I got a 2GB nitrogen6x and have been testing it. It crashed a couple > of times with the first kernel I was using (the one that was > included in an image I got from armhf) but I then upgraded th

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peter green wrote: Tim Fletcher wrote: The cubox pro, 2gb of ram and esata. From here:http://www.newit.co.uk/shop/proddetail.php?prod=CuBoxPro Seems very weak on the CPU The other option is the mirabox which is only 1gb of ram but has real mini pcie slots. Available here: http://www.newit.co

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On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:16:42PM +, peter green wrote: > After the bad stuff i'm reading about the arndaleboard (apparently > problems even at 1.4 GHz despite the advertised speed being 1.8 GHz) pandaboards were not particularry stable when people started using them. Likewise, using the ear

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On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 10:40 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 09:26:45AM +0100, Sander wrote: > > Issues with usb-to-sata don't affect usb-to-serial, do they? > > > > FWIW, I use a handful of > > http://www.aten.com/products/productItem.php?model_no=UC232A and they've > > ne

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On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 09:26:45AM +0100, Sander wrote: > Issues with usb-to-sata don't affect usb-to-serial, do they? > > FWIW, I use a handful of > http://www.aten.com/products/productItem.php?model_no=UC232A and they've > never failed me, with arm and x86 as both source and destination. I have

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Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote (ao): > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Sander wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand what the problem is. Why can't you just > > use an usb-to-serial cable? > > reliability of the usb-to-serial cable. i.e. many people have found > them to be utterly, utterly s

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Tim Fletcher wrote: The cubox pro, 2gb of ram and esata. From here:http://www.newit.co.uk/shop/proddetail.php?prod=CuBoxPro Seems very weak on the CPU The other option is the mirabox which is only 1gb of ram but has real mini pcie slots. Available here: http://www.newit.co.uk/shop/proddetail.

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Il 13/03/2013 02:03, Luke Kennèeth Casson Leighton ha scritto: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G135341370451 corr, that's f*g tiny! absolutely awesome. wow. 10 watts power input

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On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G135341370451 > > corr, that's f*g tiny! absolutely awesome. wow. 10 watts power > input. that's a hell of a lot in such a small space. hilarious

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On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:11 PM, David Pottage wrote: >> so, yeah - word of advice from experience: *DO NOT* get a system with >> 1gb of RAM for building of distro packages, if you want to have a life >> :) > > > OK then, what about ODROID-U2 ? > Quad Core Cortex A9 @ 1.7 GHz, 2Gb RAM, no SATA

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On 10/03/13 11:00, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 11:56 AM, David Pottage wrote: On 08/03/13 19:11, peter green wrote: I run a debian derivative called raspbian and i'm looking into a new build cluster both to give more power for the jessie campaign and to migrate t

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On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Sander wrote: > peter green wrote (ao): >> So I think two arndaleboards in a 1U EATX case would be tight but >> doable. The biggest problem would likely be the serial console >> connector and it may be nessacery to use a custom cable for that >> either using an IDC

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peter green wrote (ao): > Sander wrote: > >peter green wrote (ao): > >>So I think two arndaleboards in a 1U EATX case would be tight but > >>doable. The biggest problem would likely be the serial console > >>connector and it may be nessacery to use a custom cable for that > >>either using an IDC D

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Sander wrote: peter green wrote (ao): So I think two arndaleboards in a 1U EATX case would be tight but doable. The biggest problem would likely be the serial console connector and it may be nessacery to use a custom cable for that either using an IDC D connector or using a conventional solde

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Phil Endecott wrote (ao): > Steve McIntyre writes: > > The second issue is reliability - various people have reported > > instability when working their arndale machines hard for > > building. > > Can you say more, i.e. who has reported that, where? Yes, please :-) Haven't had issues with mine

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Peter Bauer wrote (ao): > Is there anywhere a guide how to > install Debian on the Arndale board ? Follow the instructions at https://wiki.linaro.org/Boards/Arndale/Setup/EnterpriseUbuntuServer to make the arndale boot from sdhc. Use multistrap on a different debian system to put an initial debia

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peter green wrote (ao): > So I think two arndaleboards in a 1U EATX case would be tight but > doable. The biggest problem would likely be the serial console > connector and it may be nessacery to use a custom cable for that > either using an IDC D connector or using a conventional solder or > crimp

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Is there anywhere a guide how to install Debian on the Arndale board ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1362923989.2485.12.camel@peter-laptop

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Hi Steve, Steve McIntyre writes: > I'm looking at migrating the current Debian buildd machines across > from imx53 to arndale in the next few months > The second issue is reliability - various people have reported > instability when working their arndale machines hard for > building. Can you sa

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Peter Bauer wrote: For a build cluster the arndale board looks way better than just laptops. 1. How much of them will you need ? I'm not really sure, for raspbian wheezy we use eight imx53 quickstart boards. Now an arndaleboard should be more than twice as fast as an imx53 even in non-par

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On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 11:56 AM, David Pottage wrote: > On 08/03/13 19:11, peter green wrote: > > I run a debian derivative called raspbian and i'm looking into a new build > cluster both to give more power for the jessie campaign and to migrate the > cluster out of mike's basement. I had been loo

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On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 07:11:16PM +, peter green wrote: >I run a debian derivative called raspbian and i'm looking into a new >build cluster both to give more power for the jessie campaign and to >migrate the cluster out of mike's basement. I had been looking egarly >at the openbrix zero but i

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On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 20:33 +, peter green wrote: > David Pottage wrote: > > On 09/03/13 11:02, Oliver Grawert wrote: > >> get a few chromebooks, 2G of ram, fast CPU and debian/ubuntu > >> supported ... admittedly no SATA but USB 3.0 which should be speedy > >> enough ... for networking get an

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David Pottage wrote: On 09/03/13 11:02, Oliver Grawert wrote: get a few chromebooks, 2G of ram, fast CPU and debian/ubuntu supported ... admittedly no SATA but USB 3.0 which should be speedy enough ... for networking get an USB 2.0 NIC (if you need wired) and enjoy that they come with a builtin

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David Pottage wrote: Have you come accross the cubieboard . It only has 1Gb of RAM, and a single core Cortex A8 CPU@1GHz, but it is a quarter of the price of the nitrogen6x so it might be more cost effective to more of them, and buy only one or two larger boards to buil

Re: arm build hardware

On 08/03/13 19:11, peter green wrote: I run a debian derivative called raspbian and i'm looking into a new build cluster both to give more power for the jessie campaign and to migrate the cluster out of mike's basement. I had been looking egarly at the openbrix zero but it looks like that proje

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On 09/03/13 11:02, Oliver Grawert wrote: > get a few chromebooks ... buy up a few with broken screens from ebay etc. ? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Samsung-Chromebook-with-BROKEN-SCREEN-/271166903320 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

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hi, On Sa, 2013-03-09 at 12:03 +, David Pottage wrote: > Apparently the USB3 socket is not actually useful. anandtech.com > Benchmarked it when they reviewed the Chromebook, and only got > 12.7MB/s (while running ChromeOS), which is barely more than the > maximum speed for USB2. i know that

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On 09/03/13 11:02, Oliver Grawert wrote: get a few chromebooks, 2G of ram, fast CPU and debian/ubuntu supported ... admittedly no SATA but USB 3.0 which should be speedy enough ... for networking get an USB 2.0 NIC (if you need wired) and enjoy that they come with a builtin UPS Apparently the U

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hi, On Fr, 2013-03-08 at 19:11 +, peter green wrote: > Required: > Reasonablly priced. I am hoping I will be able to get our build hardware > sponsored but I still don't want to take the piss by specing hardware > with poor bang per buck. > Reasonable cost of entry, I'm not going to spec out

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On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Dom wrote: > I really admire the work you've done on Raspbian. why do you support domination and control, patents and the sale of proprietary software all in the name of and under the guise of "education" [1]? if you want to admire someone please consider admir

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Dom wrote: On 08/03/13 19:11, peter green wrote: I run a debian derivative called raspbian and i'm looking into a new build cluster both to give more power for the jessie campaign and to migrate the cluster out of mike's basement. Does this mean you are intending to track Jessie on the Raspbia

Re: arm build hardware

On 08/03/13 19:11, peter green wrote: I run a debian derivative called raspbian and i'm looking into a new build cluster both to give more power for the jessie campaign and to migrate the cluster out of mike's basement. Does this mean you are intending to track Jessie on the Raspbian repos whe

arm build hardware

I run a debian derivative called raspbian and i'm looking into a new build cluster both to give more power for the jessie campaign and to migrate the cluster out of mike's basement. I had been looking egarly at the openbrix zero but it looks like that project has been abandoned :(. I've thought