Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-06-28 Thread David Power
Generally speaking, our requirements for equipment to be used as buildd/porter machines are as follows: * reliability - The stable release manager requires that we operate three machines for each port: two buildd machines in different locations and one porter machine. These machines must

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-06-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 09:29:12PM +, Luca Filipozzi wrote: We have to start somewhere, however. Having equipment on which to build, is a good start. I'll let the release team and the buildd team decide what to build, when and where. My goal is meet the supportability / reliability

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-06-27 Thread David Power
My main concern is that having a single node as buildd without another for development purposes means that we don't have easy means to keep testing for example kernel upgrades. Hey Guys, I stumbled upon this thread while trying to investigate if debian would work on the calxeda platform.

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-06-27 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 07:27:54PM +, David Power wrote: Hey Guys, I stumbled upon this thread while trying to investigate if debian would work on the calxeda platform. We're one of calxedas partners and have specific customers who would really love to see debian working on ours/calxedas

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-06-27 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 07:27:54PM +, David Power wrote: On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 09:56:51AM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: My main concern is that having a single node as buildd without another for development purposes means that we don't have easy means to keep testing for example kernel

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-06-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello David, On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Lennart Sorensen wrote: Would http://packages.debian.org/jessie/linux-image-3.9-1-vexpress by any chance be a valid kernel image for the highbank? I see in the git logs of Linus's tree that there is a v7 multiplatform config that is supposed to cover the

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-06-27 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 05:16:11PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: I am of course not in any way official Debian anything, just a long time user of Debian on many architectures and machine types, but I think I have a decent understanding of how things work. We have to start somewhere, however.

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-06-27 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/6/27 Luca Filipozzi lfili...@debian.org: On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 07:27:54PM +, David Power wrote: On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 09:56:51AM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: My main concern is that having a single node as buildd without another for development purposes means that we don't

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-06-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 17:16 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 07:27:54PM +, David Power wrote: Hey Guys, I stumbled upon this thread while trying to investigate if debian would work on the calxeda platform. We're one of calxedas partners and have specific customers

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-30 Thread Riku Voipio
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:30:27AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 09:32:59AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: The impression I got during the brief from the arm porters is that it is so far unclear how well Debian will run on this nice shiney thing. So for now it's just a

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-29 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/4/26 Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org: On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Hector Oron wrote: * DSA hat: The machine shall not be a debian.org machine, so DSA could export accounts if requested. * Buildd hat: The machine shall not be used to run buildd software to build official packages.

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 09:32:59AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:49:05PM +0200, Hector Oron wrote: Thanks, that is a very kind offer and with ARM hat on, we cannot reject the offer, it makes it very interesting as a

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2013-04-28 at 10:30 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 09:32:59AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:49:05PM +0200, Hector Oron wrote: Thanks, that is a very kind offer and with ARM hat on, we

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-27 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:49:05PM +0200, Hector Oron wrote: Thanks, that is a very kind offer and with ARM hat on, we cannot reject the offer, it makes it very interesting as a playground machine. However, let me make some points here: * ARM

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-27 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Raphael Hertzog wrote: To be a useful porter machine, it would be nice if all DD can have access to it. But if it's not administrated by DSA, I don't know if the newly announced self-served chroot service can be setup on this machine. Neither of these require the machine

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-26 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/4/12 Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org: OffensiveSecurity owns a Calxeda Highbank cluster of ARM machines[1] and is willing to dedicate one of the nodes to Debian. Thanks, that is a very kind offer and with ARM hat on, we cannot reject the offer, it makes it very interesting as a

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-26 Thread Rtp
Hector Oron hector.o...@gmail.com writes: Hello, 2013/4/12 Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org: OffensiveSecurity owns a Calxeda Highbank cluster of ARM machines[1] and is willing to dedicate one of the nodes to Debian. Thanks, that is a very kind offer and with ARM hat on, we cannot

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Hector Oron wrote: * DSA hat: The machine shall not be a debian.org machine, so DSA could export accounts if requested. * Buildd hat: The machine shall not be used to run buildd software to build official packages. Did you get those answers from the relevant teams? Was

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:49:05PM +0200, Hector Oron wrote: 2013/4/12 Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org: OffensiveSecurity owns a Calxeda Highbank cluster of ARM machines[1] and is willing to dedicate one of the nodes to Debian. Thanks, that is a very kind offer and with ARM hat on, we

Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, OffensiveSecurity owns a Calxeda Highbank cluster of ARM machines[1] and is willing to dedicate one of the nodes to Debian. I believe it would make a relatively fast ARM autobuilder or porter box. The specs of the hardware (4GB RAM, 500 GB SATA drives, 4 Cortex A9 cores at 1.1 to 1.4 GHz)

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 05:16:19PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Hello, OffensiveSecurity owns a Calxeda Highbank cluster of ARM machines[1] and is willing to dedicate one of the nodes to Debian. I believe it would make a relatively fast ARM autobuilder or porter box. The specs of the