Hi, On 2023-05-09, 15:22 +0100, Christopher Baines <m...@cbaines.net> wrote:
> Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> writes: > >> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] >> On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 02:40:21PM +0100, Christopher Baines wrote: >>> Hey! >>> >>> Almost a year ago now [1] I mentioned that I had received a HiFive >>> Unmatched board, but I hadn't got it doing anything yet. >>> >>> 1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2021-06/msg00104.html >> >> Some would say that's almost two years ago! > > Indeed, I got my maths wrong! Time is really getting on :/ > >>> In the last few days I've made some time to take a look at it again and >>> try to get it connected up to the bordeaux build farm. >>> >>> This has been somewhat successful, you should be able to see the machine >>> (named rochor) on the prototype activity viewer [2]. >>> >>> 2: https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org/activity >>> >>> Unfortunately it seems a bit stuck trying to upload the build results >>> back to the coordinator due to the suspendable ports issues in >>> guile-gnutls, but that should be fixed in the latest release so >>> hopefully I'll be able to deploy that fix soon. >>> >>> It's also just currently a bare board hooked up to a spare power supply >>> I have. I'll try and cost up a dedicated power supply plus case for it, >>> and if anyone has suggestions for minimal mini-itx compatible cases, >>> please let me know! >>> >>> This is a start, but more hardware will be needed to keep up with the >>> master branch, plus testing patches and other branches, so if you have >>> hardware to hand, or know of hardware available for purchase that might >>> be suitable, that would be really useful to know about. >> >> That's really exciting! >> >> I've been having good luck with the visionfive1 as a build machine. My >> visionfive2 gets a little hot and I'm looking at getting a desk fan to >> blow at it and some of the other boards that get a bit hot while >> building. I also use visionfive2 as my build machine. Quite happy with it. I have a fairly large heatsink installed without a fan, the temperature does not exceed 60 degrees at full load. > Cool, well let me know if any of those can be hooked up to the build > farm. It's quite easy and obviously you can still use them (and just > stop the build coordinator agent) if you need to. > I'd give it a try. Although now there is only a 256GB ssd plugged in and no dedicated ip address. I don't know how the coordinator works, maybe it doesn't matter, I need to see how it all works. -- Best regards, Aleksandr Vityazev
