[packman] armv7 Hardware contribution

Guillaume Gardet guillaume.gardet at free.fr
Wed Jan 7 17:35:43 CET 2015


Le 07/01/2015 17:24, Philipp Seiler a écrit :
> 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?

It is possible but the build service is configured to build armv6 using x86 + qemu.


Guillaume





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