Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-06-28 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 09:29:12PM +, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > We have to start somewhere, however. Having equipment on which to build, is a > good start. I'll let the release team and the buildd team decide what to > build, when and where. My goal is meet the supportability / reliability > r

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-06-28 Thread David Power
>>Generally speaking, our requirements for equipment to be used as >>buildd/porter >> machines are as follows: >> >> * reliability - The stable release manager requires that we operate >> three machines for each port: two buildd machines in different >> locations and one porter machine. These

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-06-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 17:16 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 07:27:54PM +, David Power wrote: > > Hey Guys, I stumbled upon this thread while trying to investigate if > > debian would work on the calxeda platform. We're one of calxedas partners > > and have specific cust

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-06-27 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/6/27 Luca Filipozzi : > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 07:27:54PM +, David Power wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 09:56:51AM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: >> > My main concern is that having a single node as buildd without another >> > for development purposes means that we don't have easy

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-06-27 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 05:16:11PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > I am of course not in any way official Debian anything, just a long time > user of Debian on many architectures and machine types, but I think I > have a decent understanding of how things work. We have to start somewhere, however

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-06-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello David, On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Would http://packages.debian.org/jessie/linux-image-3.9-1-vexpress by > any chance be a valid kernel image for the highbank? I see in the git > logs of Linus's tree that there is a v7 multiplatform config that is > supposed to cover the

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-06-27 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 07:27:54PM +, David Power wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 09:56:51AM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > > My main concern is that having a single node as buildd without another > > for development purposes means that we don't have easy means to keep > > testing for example ker

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-06-27 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 07:27:54PM +, David Power wrote: > Hey Guys, I stumbled upon this thread while trying to investigate if > debian would work on the calxeda platform. We're one of calxedas partners > and have specific customers who would really love to see debian working on > ours/calxeda

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-06-27 Thread David Power
> My main concern is that having a single node as buildd without another > for development purposes means that we don't have easy means to keep > testing for example kernel upgrades. Hey Guys, I stumbled upon this thread while trying to investigate if debian would work on the calxeda platform. We

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-30 Thread Riku Voipio
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:30:27AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 09:32:59AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > The impression I got during the brief from the arm porters is that it is > > so far unclear how well Debian will run on this nice shiney thing. > > So for now it's

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-29 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/4/26 Raphael Hertzog : > On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Hector Oron wrote: >> * DSA hat: The machine shall not be a debian.org machine, so DSA could >> export accounts if requested. >> * Buildd hat: The machine shall not be used to run buildd software to >> build official packages. > Did you g

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2013-04-28 at 10:30 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 09:32:59AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:49:05PM +0200, Hector Oron wrote: > > > > Thanks, that is a very kind offer and with ARM hat

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 09:32:59AM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:49:05PM +0200, Hector Oron wrote: > > > Thanks, that is a very kind offer and with ARM hat on, we cannot > > > reject the offer, it makes it very interesting

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-27 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > To be a useful porter machine, it would be nice if all DD can have access > to it. But if it's not administrated by DSA, I don't know if the newly > announced self-served chroot service can be setup on this machine. Neither of these require the machin

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-27 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:49:05PM +0200, Hector Oron wrote: > > Thanks, that is a very kind offer and with ARM hat on, we cannot > > reject the offer, it makes it very interesting as a playground > > machine. However, let me make some points here: > >

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:49:05PM +0200, Hector Oron wrote: > 2013/4/12 Raphael Hertzog : > > OffensiveSecurity owns a Calxeda Highbank cluster of ARM machines[1] and is > > willing to dedicate one of the nodes to Debian. > Thanks, that is a very kind offer and with ARM hat on, we cannot > rejec

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Hector Oron wrote: > * DSA hat: The machine shall not be a debian.org machine, so DSA could > export accounts if requested. > * Buildd hat: The machine shall not be used to run buildd software to > build official packages. Did you get those answers from the relevant teams? Was

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-26 Thread Rtp
Hector Oron writes: > Hello, > > 2013/4/12 Raphael Hertzog : > >> OffensiveSecurity owns a Calxeda Highbank cluster of ARM machines[1] and is >> willing to dedicate one of the nodes to Debian. > > Thanks, that is a very kind offer and with ARM hat on, we cannot > reject the offer, it makes it ver

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-26 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, 2013/4/12 Raphael Hertzog : > OffensiveSecurity owns a Calxeda Highbank cluster of ARM machines[1] and is > willing to dedicate one of the nodes to Debian. Thanks, that is a very kind offer and with ARM hat on, we cannot reject the offer, it makes it very interesting as a playground machi

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 05:16:19PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > 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 ha

Re: Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-12 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, On Fr, 2013-04-12 at 17:16 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > 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 hardwa

Donation of a Calxeda Highbank node

2013-04-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
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) a