Hi Tomek,

thanks for taking the initiative

I can put at least
Spresense
RP 2040
RP4b


Best regards
Alin

On Fri, 7 Feb 2025, 02:54 Tomek CEDRO, <to...@cedro.info> wrote:

> 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
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