On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 02:11:19PM -0700, David Daney wrote: > On 06/24/2013 07:36 AM, Aron Xu wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Luca Filipozzi <[email protected]> wrote: > >>On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 05:34:42PM +0800, Aron Xu wrote: > >>>On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Paul Wise <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Peter Palfrader wrote: > >>>>>If our existing eight-year old hardware is the only mips machines we can > >>>>>reasonably get then that doesn't bode well for mips. We don't think > >>>>>relying on the SWARMs (alone) is an option. > >>>> > >>>>Perhaps Cavium will interested in providing newer hardware now that > >>>>there is a MIPS N64 GSoC project underway. They offered some decent > >>>>hardware last year in association with such a port: > >>>> > >>>>http://lists.debian.org/debian-mips/2012/02/msg00001.html > >>>>http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2013/Projects#MIPS_N32.2FN64_ABI_port > >>>>http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2013/StudentApplications/EleanorChen > >>>> > >>> > >>>I believe Cavium's David Daney is on debian-mips, we can talk to him > >>>to see if there is any possibility of making donation. > >> > >>It would be wonderful to refresh our mips environment as our current mips > >>environment is not healthy. We gladly accept hardware donations but would > >>appreciate if the donated hardware be equivalent to that available > >>commercially. Of the four existing donated boxen that we operate at ubcece, > >>one has never worked (fatally defective) and two are very unreliable. We > >>also > >>had to modify them to boot on power-up. > >> > >>Do the Cavium machines have any remote management features (similar to Sun > >>ALOM, HP iLO, Dell DRAC) that allow access to a serial console and to power > >>management? Alternatively, can they be configured to power on after a power > >>loss so we can attach them to a remotely controlled power distribution unit? > >>Do they boot from local storage? > >> > >>Any help you can provide in securing newer mips equipment is appreciated. > >>We > >>MUST refresh our mips environment if we wish to continue offering a mips > >>port. > >> > >>As mentioned, we will need a number of machines to satisfy the various > >>requirements (geographically distributed buildd machines, accessible porter > >>machine(s), etc.). > >> > >>>As for the GSoC project, the student seems to not get access to the > >>>hardware Cavium offered, nor the main mentor (Cc'ed), so there is no > >>>feedback about stability/other stuff about those hardware. > >> > >>Why were the GSoC students unable to obtain access to the hardware? > >> > > > >David once said he has prepared the machine, but we haven't got > >response from him when asking for shell access. > > The good news: > > Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 ebh5600-dd ttyS0 > > ebh5600-dd login: root > Password: > Last login: Tue Jun 4 11:25:39 PDT 2013 on ttyS0 > Linux ebh5600-dd 3.9.4 #18 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 4 11:18:44 PDT 2013 mips64 > > The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; > the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the > individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. > > Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent > permitted by applicable law. > root@ebh5600-dd:~# uptime > 15:11:53 up 20 days, 3:45, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05 > root@ebh5600-dd:~# df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 910G 26G 838G 3% / > tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /lib/init/rw > udev 10M 24K 10M 1% /dev > tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm > > > The slightly less good news: I am leaving on vacation until July > 13, so I cannot get the thing on a public network until I get back.
That's great! Happy to continue the conversation regarding these machines when you return. Have a good vacation. > Also I don't recall any requests for shell access after the initial > discussions about the system Ah! Seems like some miscommunication or misunderstanding. Thanks for correcting the record. Let's chat when you get back, Luca -- Luca Filipozzi http://www.crowdrise.com/SupportDebian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
