On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Graham Whaley <graham.wha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 29 October 2013 11:50, YunQiang Su <wzss...@gmail.com> wrote: > [snip] >> >> > Nice. Can I ask which board that is? I have some boards reserved for me >> > in >> > Loongson that I am highly likely to purchase, and suspect (but would >> > like to >> > confirm) that they are the same board that you are using. I will also >> > check >> > on any further availability. If I can I will donate one/some of these >> > for >> > Debian as well. >> I prefer that you don't purchase this model of board: I can even not >> use the power >> button of chassis. Maybe that you can purchase a newer model. > > Thanks for the heads up - but, which board is it? ;-) Do you have a > model/reference number so I can check if the ones I am offered are the same > as the one you have? I have found a few different ones via google. I would > suspect you have athe 3A-RS780 board: > http://www.loongson.cn/product_info.php?id=35 > > rather than the dual-SoC LS3-CCNUMA-DEV board > http://www.loongson.cn/product_info.php?id=36 > > but maybe you have something completely different ? >
What we are running isn't any of them, and the 2-way server board looks promising. >> If IPMI is available, it will be much better. > > > IPMI would be lovely, but I'm not sure we can locate a board right now with > that - so, we may have to fix remote management with a remotely controlled > power/reset box - I believe they exist (something else I've been looking > into). If the DSA already use some then I'd be interested to hear which :-) > I don't know if IPMI is available, but there is certain kind of PCI device that can help with remotely power on/off the machine controlled by SMS. I'm curious if DSA think IPMI is mandatory for buildd and porterbox. > [snip] >> >> > >> > Much though I would love to say go with MIPS64R2, I suspect for the main >> > debian-ports.org upload that is not the best single choice. The Loongson >> > 2F >> > cores are MIPSIII I believe, as are some other platforms. I have a >> > suspicion >> > that some of the Broadcom chips for instance are MIPS32R1. >> > I would suggest that we go with MIPSIII for the first mips64le upload, >> > and >> > then we can work on MIPS32R2 for the 'unofficial ports' to begin with. >> > What >> > do you think ? >> It is also my opinion. Use MIPSIII can make more people use it, and we can >> work with some of other unofficial ports. > > > Hey, agreement! :-) > >> >> > >> >> >> >> Thanks for all of the people helped me to make this project be >> >> realized: >> >> Eleanor Chen, Aron Xu, Anthony Fok, Fuxin Zhang from Lemote and lots >> >> of other people. >> >> >> > >> > You have my thanks as well :-) >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> >> YunQiang Su >> >> >> > Graham >> > -- Regards, Aron Xu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAMr=8w7-zd77fdzw1zuxmeacapfvcd-u0fyzqzo6+0c-bqd...@mail.gmail.com
