If getting EOMA cards ahead of time is an option, I would approve of that. It would give us some headway in getting the port in shape. Alternatively, I have a handful of raspberrypi SoCs idle around here, which we could use as build slaves if necessary.
I agree that a lot of the process could, and definitely should, probably be automated. On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:27:15AM -0300, fauno wrote: > Andreas Grapentin <[email protected]> writes: > > > are you saying that currently the main issue is lack of compute > > resources? > > if we were to have a clear understanding of to whom the hardware belongs > and responsibilities, we could write to the libretea people and ask for > a few as donations. we did this with yeloongs (one was stolen and the > other died) a few years ago. > > as far as i recall the process was the following: > > * vendor said they could give us 2 yeloongs as donations > > * people on this list proposed who they think should get them > > * we voted and xihh and myself got them, under the promise it would be > used to work on the mips64el (i looked it on the list archive but it > starts on september 2011 and this was previous to this time...) > > * we received them as donations, though i had to pay for customs ($1100 > ARS which at the time were... ~200 USD iirc). i don't remember if > xihh had to pay? > > i guess we should add a way to retrieve them if the hacker is unable to > continue working. > > also, in my experience with mips64el, porting a whole distro is really > tiresome (i was spending whole days doing only packaging until we wrote > `dagpkg` and abslibre.git stabilized enough not to produce constant > build errors), so we either distribute the work or we automate it. > > maybe the hordes (?) of people getting eoma's is a good opportunity to > distribute this workload? > > what do you think? > > -- > https://lainventoria.com.ar/ > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ my GPG Public Key: https://files.grapentin.org/.gpg/public.key ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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