2010/7/1 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <[email protected]>: > Hello, > > On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 02:11:52PM -0400, Daniel Clark wrote: >> > About mipsel, I only own a OpenWRT system mipsel, where I cross-built >> > nixpkgs >> > programs fine. But that machine cannot stand a native build easily :) >> >> If that's all that is holding you back, my company has a developer's >> program; we could send you (or another interested NixOS community >> member) a faster mipsel box for free - if interested send me your >> address and phone # (needed by shippers) off-list. > > I don't mind the speed that much - the lack of a proper amount of RAM (12MB in > that machine) disallows the usage of a hungry compilers like GNU's (the only > ones working fine enough for nixpkgs builds).
Ah. This would be a Lemote Fuloong, a ~800MHz mipsel 64-bit box with 1GB, very small and low power consumption. > I did the effort for the sheevaplug because: > - I wanted a server at home, and I wanted it to be low power. And I found the > Sheevaplug affordable for my pocket, and I found it quite open, in terms of > software running in it; I thank its easy JTAG and openocd. > - I wanted only to manage NixOS systems. > > Now, having the experience, some cross-platform facilities, and cross-build > facilities in nixpkgs, I think that porting to another platform can be quite > trivial. > > But I don't envise in the next days my willing to do the effort of porting to > a > system that I don't know what I would use it for. If you think I could use > that > "mipsel box" for something, or maybe you think that others will find a good > benefit of a NixOS port to it, then I may accept that box without remorse. :) I think the use case would be roughly the same; the mipsel box has twice the RAM and internal 2.5" hard drive, and also video, and is a little bit bigger ( about the size of a CD drive - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/90/Fulong-MiniPC.jpg/250px-Fulong-MiniPC.jpg ) It needs stuff to be compiled with a specific set of gcc flags to make full use of its instruction set (I can provide these). So far only Gentoo has this support; I'd much rather run NixOS than Gentoo, so if you did use it I could guarantee at least 2 users and 8 machines running it :) > In one year there has been zero other users of the Nixos armv5tel port. :) But > I'm very happy with it - it works great at home. That's good to hear. Also usually when a developer accepts a free machine the time frame to do something useful with it before we bug them is more in the order of months. -- \|/ Daniel JB Clark | Activist; Owner FREEDOM -+-> INCLUDED ~ http://freedomincluded.com /|\ Free Software respecting hardware _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
