On 25/03/16 22:21, Bjarne Saltbæk wrote:
Ooooh the famous MP30-AR0 What did you end up paying for that board (ex. RAM) ?
£600 here in UK from here: https://www.xcase.co.uk/gigabyte-server-boards/gigabyte-mp30-ar0-with-appliedmicror-x-gene1r-processor.html Also available from a few other suppliers around europe for a similar price: https://www.sona.de/.962800465-Gigabyte-Mainboard-MP30-AR0-ARMv8-SoC http://www.ldlc.com/fiche/PB00191584.html http://www.ldlc-pro.com/fiche/PB00191584.html
I guess you now have a motivation to get KVM or XEN into RedSleeve :) ?
Not really, I'm afraid. Since there is no hardware virtualization support on most older ARMs, and since CentOS now have working armv7hl and aarch64 builds, I have no plans to duplicate their work for the sake of sticking a RedSleeve badge on it instead of a CentOS one.
(I found a web page with a guide on how to set up KVM on ARM) My motivation was not that great since i think it makes no sense virtualize any host with only 512mb-1gb RAM...
Indeed.
Put me up for some of your old boards. My Koji farm can always use more building power :) I will pay the transport myself since i live in EU (Denmark).
Which brings me to the next point. One of the big advantages of the MP30-AR0 is that it takes ECC RAM. That means we can have more confidence in the packages built on it. What I was hoping we could arrange is having a reproducible Koji docker container build (well, a method of making a rootfs with all the required configuration, making a docker image from a tarball is trivial). Then I could just put your docker Koji container on the new server, and make a few builder containers to do the actual building. This would still be a lot faster than using older machines with a single core and 512MB of RAM.
As an upshot, you wouldn't have to run anything - once you have put together a src.rpm, you could just throw the package at the koji container running here (my server will be running 24/7 anyway), and it'll take care of it.
I can give step 1-5 a go. The bonus round with making an Anaconda install is a wish for me too, but i think i should spend my available free time on the Koji farm (i am getting too deep into i to make a safe escape out again :D :D)
If you have instructions I could follow to create reproducible results running koji on an armv5tel machine so that I could containerize it on the new server, that would be quite awesome.
Note that I don't mean to discourage you from running your own, I just think having it as a cetrally available resource for registered package maintainers would be beneficial. Having extra available builders won't hurt (even if an extra SheevaPlug or similar probably won't make a noticeable dent in the workload compared to the MP30).
I saw a PXE (uPXE or iPXE maybe) boot system for arm boards - dunno if it was an uboot code, but thar was much more interresting since i usually use my boards headless.
I am not sure how that works, but we have had network TFTP boot capability in u-boot since forever so I am not entirely sure what PXE would bring to the table that we don't already have...
Anyway, which of the above machines would you like? GuruPlug has been claimed, the others are available.
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