On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 05:13:54PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 12:22:57AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 04:35:30PM -0800, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > > I note that one of the issues with the Sparc port is the the lack of a > > > developer accessible machine. > > At present, vore.debian.org is back on line; the underlying issue, though, > > seems to be that vore, like the buildds, won't necessarily *stay* on-line > > due to some hard-to-pin kernel bugs that keep taking the systems down. > > Anyway, I'm working with Stephen Frost (though "working" is a bit of an > > overstatement, he's currently waiting on me) to arrange hosting of a porter > > system with his employer; the space is all arranged, now it's just a matter > > of acquiring appropriate hardware. > > > I have at my disposal, an Ultra 5. Nothing fantastic, I know, but I'm sure > > > m68k's had less grunty boxes... It has a healthy amount of RAM, and I would > > > put a new hard drive in it (or would accept a hard drive purchased by SPI or > > > something). > > I think an Ultra 5 is probably a little light for our purposes: m68k's > > porter machine may be slower, but m68k also doesn't have, say, an > > openoffice.org port that might need debugging... Also, given the problems > > that consumer-grade DSL poses for system accessibility over the long term, > > I'd think that vore is still a better bet currently in spite of some past > > connectivity problems there, both connectivity-wise and bogomips-wise. > > Would you be willing to ship the system to Stephen if the search for better > > hardware pans out and vore proves unreliable in the long term? > I'd prefer not to relinquish posession of the box. Could it be added to the > pool of developer accessible machines anyway (with the more-the-merrier > reasoning), or is it considered insufficiently grunty bogo-mips-wise? That'd be DSA's call; but given that it probably wouldn't be sufficient, it also seems unnecessary, so I guess it would be a low priority. You could always make a standing offer of individual accounts to DDs (or non-DDs, as we often have NMs who need help getting access for porting issues), I suppose? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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