On Jan 11, 2014, at 10:14 PM, Sean Silva <[email protected]> wrote:

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> 
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> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Jakob Stoklund Olesen <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
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> On Jan 11, 2014, at 9:22 PM, Sean Silva <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Do we have a SPARC builder?
> 
> No. I have an old Sun box, but it is too slow and too noisy to serve as a 
> builder.
> 
>> Can we self-host? (Just curious; I'm clueless about the state of SPARC in 
>> LLVM and it seems to be getting some action recently).
> 
> With Venkatraman's recent work, we are very close to self-hosting a SPARCv9 
> build.
> 
> Neat. Are there any beefy-enough SPARC chips around to serve as builders some 
> day? If not, then at least we could get a wimpier one (OpenSPARC on an FPGA?) 
> and do like the wimpy ARM bots.

You can get very decent hardware for little money on eBay. (Search for 
UltraSPARC.) My dual UltraSPARC III processors need a few hours to build clang. 
An 8-core T1 would do better.

Thanks,
/jakob

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