Re: DSA concerns for jessie architectures - mips/mipsel

2013-09-29 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
Hi Graham, ]] Graham Whaley sorry if you get an unwanted Cc on this, I'm not sure what, if any of the lists you're reading. I'd like to respond to your call for help regards the release qualification matrix, in particular for hardware (buildd and porter machines), and in particular for

Re: DSA concerns for jessie architectures - mips/mipsel

2013-09-27 Thread Graham Whaley
Hi DSA, all. I'd like to respond to your call for help regards the release qualification matrix, in particular for hardware (buildd and porter machines), and in particular for mips and mipsel arch. I wish to work with you to remedy some of the listed issues. I've started working with MIPS

Re: DSA concerns for jessie architectures - mips/mipsel

2013-09-27 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, On 27/09/13 16:23, Graham Whaley wrote: I wish to work with you to remedy some of the listed issues. I've started working with MIPS hardware vendors on availability and pricing of hardware. I've wondered if SMP Loongson systems are anywhere to be found:

Re: DSA concerns for jessie architectures (mips*)

2013-06-24 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Sat, 22 Jun 2013, Andreas Barth wrote: * mips: existing machines are either not reliable or too slow to keep up; we suspect that they may not be easily replaceable. Also, if we buy more mipsel machines we could convert the mipsel swarms to mips ones (and so replace broken machines,

Re: DSA concerns for jessie architectures (mips*)

2013-06-24 Thread Aron Xu
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Peter Palfrader wea...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, 22 Jun 2013, Andreas Barth wrote: * mips: existing machines are either not reliable or too slow to keep up; we suspect that they may not be easily replaceable. Also, if we buy more mipsel machines we could

Re: DSA concerns for jessie architectures (mips*)

2013-06-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Peter Palfrader wrote: If our existing eight-year old hardware is the only mips machines we can reasonably get then that doesn't bode well for mips. We don't think relying on the SWARMs (alone) is an option. Perhaps Calvium will interested in providing newer

Re: DSA concerns for jessie architectures (mips*)

2013-06-24 Thread Aron Xu
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Peter Palfrader wrote: If our existing eight-year old hardware is the only mips machines we can reasonably get then that doesn't bode well for mips. We don't think relying on the SWARMs (alone)

Re: DSA concerns for jessie architectures (mips*)

2013-06-24 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 05:34:42PM +0800, Aron Xu wrote: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Peter Palfrader wrote: If our existing eight-year old hardware is the only mips machines we can reasonably get then that doesn't bode

Re: DSA concerns for jessie architectures (mips*)

2013-06-24 Thread Aron Xu
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Luca Filipozzi lfili...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 05:34:42PM +0800, Aron Xu wrote: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Peter Palfrader wrote: If our existing eight-year old

Re: DSA concerns for jessie architectures (mips*)

2013-06-24 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:36:20PM +0800, Aron Xu wrote: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Luca Filipozzi lfili...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 05:34:42PM +0800, Aron Xu wrote: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:51 PM,

Re: DSA concerns for jessie architectures (mips*)

2013-06-24 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013, Andreas Barth wrote: So, let's perhaps look at the situation again in two months and see where we are and if it's worth to do something else inbetween or not. Ok, please report back in two months time. Cheers, weasel -- | .''`. ** Debian

Re: DSA concerns for jessie architectures (mips*)

2013-06-24 Thread David Daney
On 06/24/2013 07:36 AM, Aron Xu wrote: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Luca Filipozzi lfili...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 05:34:42PM +0800, Aron Xu wrote: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Peter Palfrader wrote:

Re: DSA concerns for jessie architectures (mips*)

2013-06-24 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 02:11:19PM -0700, David Daney wrote: On 06/24/2013 07:36 AM, Aron Xu wrote: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Luca Filipozzi lfili...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 05:34:42PM +0800, Aron Xu wrote: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org