Hello,
OffensiveSecurity owns a Calxeda Highbank cluster of ARM machines[1] and is
willing to dedicate one of the nodes to Debian. I believe it would make a
relatively fast ARM autobuilder or porter box. The specs of the hardware (4GB
RAM, 500 GB SATA drives, 4 Cortex A9 cores at 1.1 to 1.4 GHz) are better than
most (all?) of Debian's ARM boxes.
However this host runs on Ubuntu by default (12.10 currently).
AFAIK Debian's kernel doesn't support such machines yet, Ubuntu has a special
ARM flavor called "highbank" [2]. So I'm not sure how we could handle this
donation right now (putting debian-admin@ in the loop to see what requirements
they have at this level, and debian-kernel@ to see whether such a flavor would
be doable for Debian too).
I am however running Debian armel/armhf chroots on such a machine without any
problem. So it seems that the kernel is the only problematic part.
I do have root access to the system and I can pass it to DSA or any porter
who would need access to the host. The thing supports IPMI and various
management
tools but they are not currently setup and I'm not familiar with them. If
needed,
with guidance, and if it supports proper per-node delegation, we could imagine
giving access to DSA to this management tool.
If you have questions, feel free to ask. I'll do my best to answer.
Some more infos:
# cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 0 (v7l)
processor : 0
BogoMIPS : 2190.54
processor : 1
BogoMIPS : 2190.54
processor : 2
BogoMIPS : 2190.54
processor : 3
BogoMIPS : 2190.54
Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x3
CPU part : 0xc09
CPU revision : 0
Hardware : Highbank
Revision : 0000
Serial : 0000000000000000
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 455G 2.1G 430G 1% /
udev 2.0G 4.0K 2.0G 1% /dev
tmpfs 809M 176K 808M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /run/shm
none 100M 0 100M 0% /run/user
/dev/sda1 89M 53M 32M 63% /boot
# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 4040 1695 2344 0 266 1245
-/+ buffers/cache: 183 3856
Swap: 3944 0 3944
# uname -a
Linux arm08 3.5.0-22-highbank #33-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 3 01:05:04 UTC 2013 armv7l
armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux
# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="12.10, Quantal Quetzal"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu quantal (12.10)"
VERSION_ID="12.10"
Cheers,
[1] More precisely a SystemFabriCore:
http://www.systemfabricworks.com/products/systemfabricore
[2]
http://ncommander.blogspot.fr/2012/06/announcement-of-calxeda-highbank-images.html
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/Server/Install
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