On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM Alan C. Assis <acas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Something to keep in mind about this distributed (build) system: > Not everyone has free electricity (solar panels) to run a computer server > 24/7. And a solution where the server owner only runs it occasionally won't > help. > So we need to have an option where images are built on our IC and > downloaded to some low-power board (e.g. Raspberry Pi) to test the user's > boards and send the results to our IC. > This way it will be more flexible and more people could contribute.
Quick testing of example raspberrypi-pico:nsh build: 1. 3,5min: 4 core i5 CPU@2.9GHz 8GB RAM. 2. 19,5min: rpi-0-2w 4 core CPU@1GHz 0.5GB RAM. Did not measure power consumption yet but the overall cost seems a lot smaller for ~5.5x time increase on a pack of matches board size. rPI-0-2W is comparable to rPI-3B. For sure rPI-4 or rPI-5 will be faster. And this is still faster than standard PR CI build. Not bad as for something that could just silently work in the background :-) -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
