Re: Best hardware platform for native compiling...

2009-07-22 Thread Olof Johansson
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:47:39PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 14:00 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > Well, I got one recently here in Spain. Shipping charges are fairly > > large (it's not exactly a light and compact machine). But the current > > dollar exchange

Re: Best hardware platform for native compiling...

2009-07-21 Thread David Jander
On Tuesday 21 July 2009 14:00:07 you wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:31:36PM +0200, David Jander wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 July 2009 11:52:51 you wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:16:52AM +0200, David Jander wrote: > > > > For bigger systems we often run a debian-derived OS like Ubuntu, an

Re: Best hardware platform for native compiling...

2009-07-21 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 14:00 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > Well, I got one recently here in Spain. Shipping charges are fairly > large (it's not exactly a light and compact machine). But the current > dollar exchange rate helps ;-) > > Now I have not yet found the way to install Debian on it >

Re: Best hardware platform for native compiling...

2009-07-21 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:31:36PM +0200, David Jander wrote: > On Tuesday 21 July 2009 11:52:51 you wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:16:52AM +0200, David Jander wrote: > > > For bigger systems we often run a debian-derived OS like Ubuntu, and many > > > pieces are compiled natively on the tar

Re: Best hardware platform for native compiling...

2009-07-21 Thread David Jander
On Tuesday 21 July 2009 11:52:51 you wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:16:52AM +0200, David Jander wrote: > > For bigger systems we often run a debian-derived OS like Ubuntu, and many > > pieces are compiled natively on the target... just because it is easy and > > quick to do, and cross-compilin

Best hardware platform for native compiling...

2009-07-21 Thread David Jander
Hi all, This might sound as a stupid question (and maybe sligtly off-topic), but I have not found an (easy) answer and I suspect many on this list will have a good suggestion to make: We are developing (and maintaining) different embedded linux systems based on different PowerPC processors. F