mipsel buildd

[James Cowgill]

Hi,

On 22/11/16 00:17, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 09:22:37AM +0100, James Cowgill wrote:
>> On 15/09/16 01:15, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
>>> Thank you for the clarification!  Hm, I wonder if there aren't very
>>> many mipsel build hosts, or if it's just that they're very slow?  If
>>> the problem is that there aren't enough, I wonder if it would be
>>> useful to write a wiki page linked to from "ways to contribute to
>>> Debian" detailing the process of how to repurpose an old router as a
>>> buildd host. ;-)
>>
>> At the moment there are more mipsel buildds than mips, but the mipsel
>> buildds are also used for building mips64el so they can seem a bit slow
>> at times as they have double the work to do. Extra hardware is always
>> useful, but I'm not sure an old router would be anywhere near powerful
>> enough to operate a buildd :)
>
> Haha yeah, it would be more of a proof-of-concept than a practical
> thing ;-) Out of curiousity, do you know if most mipsel buildd hosts
> are running on old SGI gear, on those new "Warrior" boards, or on
> something even more exotic and expensive?

There's a list here:
https://wiki.debian.org/MIPSPort#Build_daemons_.26_porter_boxes

Most of them are Cavium Octeon based boards except for a few Loongson
3As. A lot of the really old SGI stuff won't actually run stretch.

James

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