hi, On Fr, 2013-04-12 at 17:16 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello, > > OffensiveSecurity owns a Calxeda Highbank cluster of ARM machines[1] and is > willing to dedicate one of the nodes to Debian. I believe it would make a > relatively fast ARM autobuilder or porter box. The specs of the hardware (4GB > RAM, 500 GB SATA drives, 4 Cortex A9 cores at 1.1 to 1.4 GHz) are better than > most (all?) of Debian's ARM boxes. > > However this host runs on Ubuntu by default (12.10 currently). > > AFAIK Debian's kernel doesn't support such machines yet, Ubuntu has a special > ARM flavor called "highbank" [2]. So I'm not sure how we could handle this > donation right now (putting debian-admin@ in the loop to see what requirements > they have at this level, and debian-kernel@ to see whether such a flavor would > be doable for Debian too). > > I am however running Debian armel/armhf chroots on such a machine without any > problem. So it seems that the kernel is the only problematic part. > with 13.04 ubuntus highbank flavour got transitioned into linux-generic (which is the multiplatform kernel, debian calls it armmp on arm afaik) ... that should work for you guys too ... there are some flash-kernel and d-i adjustments in ubuntu that you might want to pull in for this to work ciao oli
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