Re: MIPS port backlog, autobuilder machines and some arrogance

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> writes:

> There's one on my desk.  It's an embedded board produced by Broadcom,
> complete with dual cores, IDE, and dual gigabit ethernet.  MIPS, Inc.
> has a similar board; Debian has one of these somewhere, IIRC.  These
> little fellows have more computing power than our PPC build daemon.
> 
> The machines you are likely to be thinking of are things like the SGI
> R12000; the conventional workstation-type MIPS platforms have much
> worse support than the embedded ones, but the embedded ones pack a
> serious punch nowadays.

I want one too. If they would just come without the 5000$ development
support.

MfG
        Goswin