[packman] armv7 Hardware contribution

[Philipp Seiler]

On Wed, 07 Jan 2015 16:28:36 +0100
Guillaume Gardet <guillaume.gardet at free.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Le 07/01/2015 15:57, Philipp Seiler a écrit :
> > Hi Packman guys,
> >
> > I started to build against armv7 because of a little private
> > project. So I found out that there are only two worker.
> 
> In fact, 2 boards with 2 workers each, so 4 workers. ;) Ok, this is
> still not huge.
> 
> > Maybe some people can
> > contribute their armv7 hardware to enhance the build power of PMBS.
> > I would donate to bananapi's but I don't know where to put it.

I meant "two" for sure.

> > My home connection is to slow to host them there.
> > Any Ideas or other suggestions?
> 
> What is slow for you? Here, I have 3.5 Mbits/s (0.4 MBytes/s) down
> and 1 Mbits/s (0.12 MBytes/s) up and it is enough to contribute,
> especially if you enable caches.

Thats a good point. But regarding the mass rebuilds on packman I think
the upload is the more important connection also for my online gaming
part.
But I'll try it. Is it possible to compile armv6 on a armv7 chipsets
like building i586 on x86_64 hardware?

Best Regards,

Philipp Seiler

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