@Sep: related to ARM64 server boards

have you read this?


http://chezphil.org/rwanda/index.html


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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Ethercat driver (Jeff Epler)
   2. missing arm64 builds for stretch? (Gene Heskett)
   3. Re: missing arm64 builds for stretch? (Sebastian Kuzminsky)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 07:25:43 -0600
From: Jeff Epler <[email protected]>
To: EMC developers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Ethercat driver
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On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 08:29:53PM +0100, Nicklas Karlsson wrote:
> https://openethercatsociety.github.io/doc/soem/index.html
> ...
> Features as of 1.2.0 :
>     Changed license to GPLv2 only. Adresses leagal concerns about master 
> licensing.
> ...
>
> So I guess it is OK.
>

On this date, that page still contains the text

| You can use SOEM for the sole purpose of creating, using and/or
| selling or otherwise distributing an EtherCAT network master provided
| that an EtherCAT Master License is obtained from Beckhoff Automation
| GmbH.

restricting how the software may be used, modified, and distribured in
contradiciton of other terms of the GPL.



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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 09:59:19 -0500
From: Gene Heskett <[email protected]>
To: EMC developers <[email protected]>
Subject: [Emc-developers] missing arm64 builds for stretch?
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Greetings all;

Pursuant to the wiki instructions, I have made a buildbot entry
in /etc/apt/sources.list.d, which contains:

deb     http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/ stretch master-rtpreempt

but an "apt update" claims it can't be found:
E: Failed to fetch http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/dists/stretch/InRelease
Unable to find expected entry 'master-rtpreempt/binary-arm64/Packages'
in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

No arm64 builds yet?

git won't update the clone I did back in October last year. Claims the
Makefile has been modified.  Of course it has, its been configured and
built when jessie was installed. But now its got stretch on it, running
xfce, surprisingly nicely. But it was a week of hell getting that far.
But now that I know how, next time s/b easy.

So how do I proceed?

Thanks everybody.

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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 10:15:20 -0700
From: Sebastian Kuzminsky <[email protected]>
To: EMC developers <[email protected]>, Gene
        Heskett <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] missing arm64 builds for stretch?
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On 02/05/2018 07:59 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Pursuant to the wiki instructions, I have made a buildbot entry
> in /etc/apt/sources.list.d, which contains:
>
> deb     http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/ stretch master-rtpreempt
>
> but an "apt update" claims it can't be found:
> E: Failed to fetch http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/dists/stretch/InRelease
> Unable to find expected entry 'master-rtpreempt/binary-arm64/Packages'
> in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
>
> No arm64 builds yet?

That is correct, the buildbot doesn't build/test/package on arm64 yet.

The reason for that is that we don't have any arm64 buildslaves.

We do have a couple of armhf (32-bit) buildslaves, running on Odroid U3
machines.  They are super flaky and unreliable and account for about 90%
of the headaches the buildbot produces.

I don't want to add any more flaky little machines to take care of.

What I want is a server-class arm64 board with several CPUs and a couple
of gigs of RAM per CPU, to run virtual armhf and arm64 buildslaves on,
just like how the x86 and amd64 buildslaves are managed.  8 CPUs and 16
GB RAM would be comfortable.

Does anyone have first-hand experience with any hardware like that?


> git won't update the clone I did back in October last year. Claims the
> Makefile has been modified.  Of course it has, its been configured and
> built when jessie was installed. But now its got stretch on it, running
> xfce, surprisingly nicely. But it was a week of hell getting that far.
> But now that I know how, next time s/b easy.
>
> So how do I proceed?

The configure script doesn't modify the Makefile, it creates non-tracked
files that the Makefile reads.  Any modifications to the Makefile must
have been manual or accidental.  You can see the contents of the change
with this command:

 > git diff src/Makefile

If the changes aren't important to you and you want to throw them away,
use this command:

 > git checkout src/Makefile

After that, see if there's anything else changed in your working tree:

 > git status

If it's all clean, you can move forward with:

 > git fetch origin
 > git merge --ff-only origin/master

(Assuming you're on master and you want to stay on master.)


--
Sebastian Kuzminsky



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