Re: mips fpu hw

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

On 06/04/16 10:39, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On 2016-03-11 19:11, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>> Hi,
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> It's been a long while that I have been asking on #debian-buildd about some
>> mips buildds with a floating point unit, and the answer has always been "it
>> will happen soon".
>>
>> Currently this state of affairs causes some packages to take several *days*
>> to build.
>>
>> So what's the status of this? Is there anything blocking this? Is there no
>> modern mips hardware with a fpu, like we used to have?
> 
> A first machine with FPU have been installed yesterday in AQL and called
> mips-aql-06. It has successfully built packages using floating point
> which failed to build before:
> - babl is now built in 27 minutes instead of getting killed after 12h
>   due to timeout [1]
> - chealpix is now built in 10 min instead of getting killed after 12h
>   due to timeout [2]
> - healpix-cxx is now built in 1h09 instead of getting killed after 78h
>   of timeout [3]
> 
> In addition it has 4 cores instead of 2 cores on the previous machines,
> so it builds package with parallel=n faster:
> - samba is now built in 1h23 instead of 2h37 due to the additional
>   cores [4]. 
> 
> More machines will be installed later so that we have full buildd
> redundancy.

Great news!

Thanks,
Emilio