Re: buildd machines?
As a postscript to my previous post, let me add that I have ethernet
transceiver dongles for probably most of the Quadras, which all have
built-in ethernet. The IIci's would need NuBus network cards.
JCE
Joel Ewy wrote:
> I don't know whether it would make a significant difference in build
> time for m68k packages or not, and I don't know much about the buildd
> process, but I have 2 Quadra 840AVs, a 660AV, and a pile (I think 4 or
> more) of Q700s lying around doing not much of anything at the moment.
> I've had older versions of Debian running on the 840s but they need to
> be reinstalled. One of them has 128M RAM, and the other could easily be
> upgraded. I was using one for lightweight desktop and graphics apps for
> a while, but there were irritating keyboard issues in X.
>
> I gather that the 840s would be within the realm of the kinds of
> machines that are currently being used for builds, and the 660 might be
> in the ballpark too. The Q700s have 25Mhz '040s, miniscule hard drives
> (if any), and only 20M RAM in 30-pin SIMMs, so I imagine they would be
> forced to do a lot of swapping building anything but small packages.
> OTOH, they've got nothing better to do. I have some 4G SCSI drives
> lying around, but they have 68-pin connectors. Adaptors are about
> $10-$15US I think. I'm not in a position right now to spend much money
> on hobbies, but would love to see all this equipment put to better use.
> I also have a number of Mac II ci's w/ cache cards. These are
> '030-25MHz. They have 8 30-pin SIMM sockets, instead of the 4 in the
> Q700s. The CPU is obviously not as fast, but it looks like they could
> probably accept 32M of RAM if I could find enough 4M SIMMs, and RAM
> might trump the difference between clock-parity '030 and '040 when it
> comes to building Debian packages.
>
> Another issue is that I'm behind NAT, though there's some possibility I
> could be moving to static IPs in the near future. Don't know exactly
> how this would effect hosting buildds. I think I could forward ports,
> but that would probably only work for a single machine. Of course I
> don't know how the machines would need to be accessed...
>
> I would be reluctant to give up my 840s and 660, but I would be willing
> to ship all but one Q700 to somebody else who could more ably administer
> their use as buildds, if they would be of any use. Same for the II ci
> systems.
>
> Also, though I realize that Aranym builds are still experimental, how
> hard would it be to do SETI@Home -- I mean build Debian m68k packages as
> a spare-time activity for underworked x86 CPUs the world over? ie, make
> a pre-packaged, dedicated buildd binary image that could turn your PC
> into a temporary m68k build workhorse. Doesn't appear that adding and
> removing buildds is exactly a seamless, on-the-fly kind of proposition.
> What if it could be?
>
> JCE
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