On Thursday 24 April 2008 11:57:47 am you wrote: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Gerard van den Berg < > Gerard.Vandenberg at sun.com> wrote: > > What are the expected time lines to have the new 'Dillon' config. up > > and running? How urgent is it? I will be out of the office April 29 > > until May 21. Dillon is a machine which is not HVM compatible as we
Like I said on the phone yesterday, it's not *hugely* urgent: we have some S10 machines up and running, just nothing nice and crunchy for regular builds. But we would want an S10 somehow -- as a container, or heck we could T&B a 2100 :) (with the "not buy" option). > > saw in an earlier post. So, I can investigate whether we can get a new > > machine to replace Dillon. A SunFire X4440 (AMD quad core) or SunFire > > X4450 (Intel quad core). I don't think this machine will be in the lab > > and online before end May/beginning of June. That would be a reasonable timeframe, I think: by then we *must* have settled down on Nevada and can spend some engineering effort -- primarily dealing with extra dependencies and the complication of building some packages only for S10 -- on that platform. > Both of offered machines looks really nice and powerful. I would like to > vote for X4440 (AMD dual core), due our tune flags. X4450 looks a bit more > promising for computing power. Stefan, Adriaan ??? I have no opinion either way. We never get dillon to full load anyway (not with our current build setup; I have not gotten around to setting up continuous builds + reporting, which is always on my todo list). > We will using recent dillon (HW) till middle of June. Please, Adriaan, say > what version of Nevada (or Solaris 10) you need there. I dunno, nv83 + the Right Compiler is important; similarly S10U5 + the Right Compiler. -- Adriaan de Groot, vice-president, KDE e.V. http://ev.kde.org/
