Re: Proposal to replace/extend current armhf builders

[Eric Nelson <eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com>]

Thanks Ricardo,

On 11/15/2013 06:18 AM, Ricardo Mones wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:37:15PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 00:23:55 +0000
> > Wookey <wookey@wookware.org> wrote:
> [...]
> > > Or Wanda or the Nitrogen6x we've just kindly been offered.
> >
> > Or those, yes. One of the issues is getting boards with more RAM than
> > the current 1GB that the MX53 Locos have, so only the wandboard quad
> > and the utilite fall in that criteria, I see that the Nitrogen6X has
> > only 1GB RAM, so even if it's a nice and tempting offer, I'd still
> > think we need to evaluate this better. It would definitely improve the
> > situation immensely, but builds might still break due to OutOfMemory
> > errors (like iceweasel), but we would definitely get rid of tons of
> > timeout errors that currently need special casing.
>
>    Surely it adds something to the final price tag but seems the
> Nitrogen6X boards can be easily upgraded to 2GB:
>
>    http://boundarydevices.com/products/2gb-ddr3-upgrade-for-nitrogen6x/
>
>    So maybe still an option.

You saved me some time ;)

These boards do tend to be out of stock though (we keep underestimating
demand).

Regards,


Eric