On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 10:04 PM, Uwe Kleine-König <u...@kleine-koenig.org> wrote: > Hello Julien, > > On 06/29/2018 11:23 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: >>> If the concerns are mostly about the hardware not being rackable, there >>> is a rackable NAS by Netgear: >>> >>> >>> https://www.netgear.com/business/products/storage/readynas/RN2120.aspx#tab-techspecs >>> >>> with an armhf cpu. Not sure if cpu speed (1.2 GHz) and available RAM (2 >>> GiB) are good enough. The machine can run mainline Linux[1]. I think >>> U-Boot doesn't support this machine in mainline though. >>> >> Rackable, while good, is only part of it. The main part is remote >> management. I'm not seeing any mention of ipmi or anything like that in >> the datasheet? > > you can access the serial console, but I don't think there is built-in > support for something IPMI-like. > >> 2G is also way too little memory these days for a new buildd. > > Then the machine is out, the amount of RAM isn't upgradable.
I don't think 2GB is not enough for 32-bit machine. I see armel is already not a candidate for buster [0]. So it seems we can discuss armhf, but no armel at all. I don't agree with this idea. And I think we should treat armel and armhf equally. Both armel and armhf are working fine are millions of boards and embedded devices, and have stable quality [1]. They deserve the support from a community driven distro. [0] https://release.debian.org/buster/arch_qualify.html [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2017/11/msg00061.html Cheers, -- Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo PGP/GPG: 4096R/6C6ACD6417B3ACB1