Re: Account on ARM/Debian

[David Nadlinger]

On Monday, 15 October 2012 at 17:05:00 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
I've been talking to Iain Buclaw, gdc's leader, and was 
surprised to learn he has a quite workable ARM port available. 
To make it production-ready, we should have some continuous 
test integration, which entails ssh access to an ARM/Debian 
account.

Is there anyone on this list who'd want to donate such an 
account?

I recently got an ODROID-X (4x1.4 GHz Cortex A9, 1GB RAM) for a 
very similar purpose, i.e. running the LDC test suite on ARM. 
It's fast enough that working on compiler development without 
resorting to cross-compiling is actually somewhat fun, but I 
didn't get around to set it up it yet – we are cleaning things 
up for an actual x86/x86_64 release right now, as some distros 
seem to decisively prefer packaging releases instead of Git 
revisions.

It would likely be always on, albeit behind a somewhat broken 
router, so you'd have to use a VPN for outside access. Also, I'm 
not quite sure how the tiny box would handle the pressure from 
both GDC and LDC.

Anyway, Iain, if the Raspberry PI offers don't work out, feel 
free to give me a shout.

David