mipsel buildd

[Nicholas D Steeves]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 09:51:33AM +0000, James Cowgill wrote:
> 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.

Wow, I've never heard of Octeon before, though Loongson is familiar.

Thanks James!
Nick
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