On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Graham Whaley <graham.wha...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3 December 2013 12:31, Hector Oron <hector.o...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello Aron, >> >> 2013/12/3 Aron Xu <a...@debian.org>: >> > On Tuesday, December 3, 2013, Hector Oron wrote: >> >> >> Debian is currently being bitten by MIPS chinese prototype boards that >> >> behave unreliably and are hard to replace. >> >> I, personally, think that being able to buy (if needed) hardware is >> >> not bad idea either, for the sake of replacements, redundancies, >> >> etc... >> >> > I wonder what do you mean by prototype boards? IIRC those 2E boxes are >> > not >> > prototypes but was available for purchase, but because they are old and >> > 2F >> > CPUs replaces its position... Well the bad thing is that there are 3 >> > versions of 2F that has/had been put in production and only the last one >> > does not have the NOP hardware bug... >> >> Apologies for the confusion, allow me to clarify, I was referring to >> 'mips' Octeon boards, either those were prototypes or failed QA, so >> out of four boards send to ubcece: >> - One board was DOA >> - Two boards are really unreliable >> - One board is somehow stable >> All of the above came with notes saying that eth0 was broken. >> >> We do not want to repeat the same mistake for the mipsel port. >> >> > I once used a 2F box for a couple of days and I now feel that 3A boards >> > are >> > much better than 2E/2F. Also, Lemote's Spark 6100 machine is easier to >> > buy >> > than Loongson's boards (Lemote's are available for purchase online >> > without >> > the need of contacting beforehand). >> >> Yes, I found a Spark 3A 6100 at taobao site. I was planning to get one >> for myself and check whether it can be worth it for Debian >> infrastructure. So, I was wondering if you had experience with it and >> if there is mainline supported kernel, bootloader, etc... in essence, >> is it able to run buildd software with Debian software components >> (doing minimal enablement)? > > > Does anybody have a URL for purchase of those Spark 6100 machines? I had a > surf on taobao, but completely failed to find anything lemote or loongson. > I did check recently with the European distributor (tekmote) if they were > going to sell the '3A mini-pc or desktop', and they said no :-( >
And here you are: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=22206048695 Price is CNY 3999 right now, seems to be much cheaper than before (I remember it was about CNY6999). Thanks, Aron -- 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=8w5hztfnwgzuu3_uqgjj6j5emmwwtkbcyrjhuyftnd3...@mail.gmail.com