Hi Ralph,
this is good stuff, we should just a wiki section started on this I think.
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Karanbir Singh wrote: I could get my hands on a 220R with 36G (2x Ultrasparc) in a few weeks, but don't have the time at the moment to speed up that process. I also
A few weeks should be ok, its not something that is effecting us this much, Also Pasi mentioned dropping it at the end of the 4.3 cycle ( which is still a month+ away ).
talked to Pasi and he doesn't have the time to "work in" a new person. But there's still some interest on our side to work on this, though it's not completely clear, where the hooks and claws are on that build (no real C confidence over here).
What we need to do is get the h/w setup at a central space where someone ( even if its just the one person who has physical access ) can build on. Apart from that once the CentOS4.3/sparc is setup on the machine I am sure we can all pitch in and help out.
I suppose whats critical here is that we get a few people involved right from the start.
If you are interested, and have the time to spend this might be something you can get involved with ?
So if that process can be doubled ...
I don't see much chances though that I could give away user accounts on that machine, which are reachable from the outside world, as that machine sits in our server intranet. And still has to lose the job it's doing at the moment.
thats not a problem, I think there might be enough machines locally that people could contribute from off-site, as long as there is some means ( we can setup whatever is required ) to get code over into the buildsystem and built + scp'ed out.
And I dont imagine you will have that ADSL-Curse of .4MB/sec upload limit either :)