Stephen Paul Weber wrote: > I'm investigating doing an armhf port of a Debian derivative (gNewSense) and > am looking at hardwark for the build infrastructure.
I'm currently putting together a a box myself as a Jenkins build slave to build a couple of projects I'm interested in. > I have mostly found the same to be true. There is > <http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Firefly-RK3288-Quad-Core-Cortex-A17-Development-Board-Plus-4GB-DDR3-32GB-eMMC-Adapter/1710008_32248656289.html> > > which looks promising. I chose this one (disclaimer, I work for Qualcomm): http://www.inforcecomputing.com/products/moreinfo/inforce6540.html mainly because its a quad core 2.5GHz CPU and it has a a SATA port. It comes with Android, but Inforce have an Ubuntu image that can be flashed to it. I'm still deciding whether I want to try and force Debian over the top of that or just run a Debian chroot. The docs are a little sparse and not very friendly. > >Storage interfaces can also be an issue. USB is ubiquitous on arm boards > >but the implementations can be shaky and this has made me wary > > Do you need a lot of on-device storage all at once? With gigabit ethernet, > having an on-LAN mirror + NAS for storing results might work as long as > there's enough space to build the current task? Or, I may be missing > something. Well, by the end of this coming weekend, I should be able to provide a real comparison between this Inforce board and a recent quad core Intel i5 if that helps. Cheers, Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150226195902.d459331ba4853a9b1d44b...@mega-nerd.com
