Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes: > Hi Leo, > >> On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 12:13:44PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: >>> Regardless, I think we should seriously consider moving the Aarch64 >>> build slave(s) to Hydra for now, until Cuirass is more mature. >> >> I agree with your points about why berlin.guixsd.org makes it harder to >> maintain the aarch64 port. I use Berlin substitutes alongside those of >> Hydra but I don't actually do any build debugging with Berlin yet >> because I don't know how to use the interface effectively. > > I think our use of Hydra is not sustainable. It requires regular manual > intervention by Mark, careful tuning of SQL queries, conscientious > clean up of old substitutes, and we have not a single person familiar > with the Perl code. > > We do have people working on Cuirass, though. Let’s add important > missing features to Cuirass instead of making efforts to keep Hydra on > life support. > >> It would be really great to get another pair of machines with similar >> capabilities. > > I agree. We need volunteers to pick a particular configuration (my > suggestion is to start with an Overdrive 3000 rack server[1]) and find a > place to host these servers. We have not been successful in delegating > this to other people and unfortunately the maintainers cannot take care > of this themselves. > > [1]: https://shop.softiron.com/product/overdrive-3000/
Just out of curiosity, would that server run libreboot? > > -- > Ricardo
