On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 18:13 -0400, Chris Ball wrote:
> The previous ARM build farm was decommissioned, and a new one
is
> being built, with some corresponding team changes. The status
> right now is that the shipment of new build hardware (a farm of
> GuruPlugs) was delayed due to a design defect; a revised version
> of hardware is supposed to be shipped next week. In the interim,
> there are two builders available.
Would it help if we bought some Sheevaplugs, put them online as koji
builders and gave access to Fedora developers? That sounds like
something we could do.
Thanks for the offer, but not sure it would help: GlobalScale is
backlogged on the production of both SheevaPlugs and GuruPlugs, so I
doubt a new order would arrive any earlier than the 20 units already
coming -- plus the local builders are connected directly to the hub by
GigE. (Update today: GlobalScale says the plugs will ship the last week
of June).
Oh, and has anyone experimented to see whether qemu-arm on a fast
x86
box with lots of RAM performs faster compiles than a SheevaPlug?
We used qemu-system-arm to do initial feasibility testing last semester.
On a decent Intel box, it runs at about 10% of the speed of a
Sheeva/Guru when executing build tasks.
> Two things would be really helpful:
>
> - Point us to a list of packages you are using in your Remix, so
> we can put priority on those as we triage build failures.
Sure. Here's the list, we're currently on F11:
http://build.laptop.org/10.2.0/os125/os125.packages.txt
Perfect, thanks! Looks like there are a few dozen packages you use that
are missing in F12 ARM.
-Chris