From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: armhf build machines
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2015 18:18:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fuzc7tb4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4d5zips.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Mon, 07 Dec 2015 23:07:27 -0500")
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 11:36:46AM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 11:14:24AM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote:
>>>> > The impression I got from looking at the build farm thank-yous on the website
>>>> > was that we have lowered requirements for what we're looking for in armhf
>>>> > build machines, at least in terms of RAM. In terms of freedom the Raspberry
>>>> > Pi 2 isn't great, but in terms of cost its pretty inexpensive. Is this
>>>> > something we'd be interested in?
>>>>
>>>> We are waiting for two new Novena boards that should arrive before the
>>>> end of the year. The current bottleneck is not the build machines, but hydra;
>>>> already now the build farm could sustain more jobs in parallel, but we
>>>> artificially limit them. So I would say that there is currently no need
>>>> to add more build machines. This may change if we get a physical machine
>>>> for hydra.
>>>
>>> What sort of machine would be appropriate for hydra?
>>
>> Something rather big: say 8+ cores, 16+G RAM, fast disk of 3T at least.
>
> I would also add that it should run Libreboot, for which the ASUS
> KGPE-D16 is currently the best supported server-class motherboard.
Right, I would prefer it as well; I hope we can find such rackable
servers.
If it turns out that all we can buy in practice is an ME-backdoored
server, I *might* be willing to take it, with the understanding that it
would become less and less of a single point of trust (assuming more of
our package builds become reproducible, and other users publish binaries
as well.)
WDYT?
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-07 9:14 armhf build machines Efraim Flashner
2015-12-07 10:36 ` Andreas Enge
2015-12-07 18:28 ` Leo Famulari
2015-12-07 23:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-08 4:07 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-12-08 17:18 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-12-08 19:39 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-12-09 13:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
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