Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 08:44:30PM +0100, Laurent GUERBY wrote: > >> For the compile farm project I manage I was proposed a donation of the >> exact same hardware (Origin 300 with 4 cpus and 2GB RAM). I'll let >> you know when I have more information. >> >> BTW, in the SGI/MIPS family, do you know what is the most powerful >> hardware currently supported (hardware not weighting near a ton, more >> like a workstation or a few U)? Bootstraping GCC takes a while these >> days :). > > Some R10000-family based workstation that would be then. That leaves the > choice between the Indigo 2 R10000 (supported in tree), O2 (R10000 > version not supported in-tree and external patches not stable afaik) and > the Octane which is only supported by external patches. > > If you're just after raw computing power for bootstrapping GCC then maybe > what you want is something like a Broadcom Swarm or Big Sur evaluation > board which have 2 rsp. 4 pretty beefy cores with FPU. Maybe there is > also something Cavium-based that works reasonably well - my Cavium system > unfortunately has no PATA or SATA controller and no PCI slots thus no > local storage. > > My personal wish to eval board developers - design those things to be > usable like workstations or headless servers, with the option of local > storage and a system controller along the lines of an Origins that > allows remote reset etc. Costs one microcontroller extra, adds alots of > usability. Malta got that one right (send a break on the serial console > for reset) and Cavium has an extra serial port for that sort of use. > > Ralf Anyone in the Boston area (or coming in for the upcoming Boston conferences) would be welcome to take this Origin 200 (or anything else pictured at http://static.fsf.org/nosvn/reuse-recycle/): http://static.fsf.org/nosvn/reuse-recycle/fsf-reuse-recycle-2/original_img_1909_jpg.jpeg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Origin_200#Processor -- Daniel JB Clark | Sys Admin, Free Software Foundation pobox.com/~dclark | http://www.fsf.org/about/staff#danny
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