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 :-( > > Regards, > -- > Héctor Orón -.. . -... .. .- -. -.. . ...- . .-.. --- .--. . .-. >
