Mailing List Archive: A machine for the project

A machine for the project

Jul 29, 2016, 9:06 AM

Post #1 of 5 (2740 views)

Hi,

I saw this on the gentoo-sparc project page :
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Gentoo/Staffing_Needs/SPARC_Team_Member

I have a v880 sitting in my office with the following specs:
- 8 x US-III+ @ 1.2ghz
- 16G ram
- Bunch of FC and cassini ethernet cards
- Working RSC
- Only two tiny (8G) local disks, which are just enough to boot from
- Connected over GigE to a synology NAS with 7 TB of net storage available,
can do ISCSI, NFS, etc ...

I would like this machine to be useful to the community.
It sits in my office in a separate (noise insulated) room. It is reachable
over a 70 mbit VDSL line with a static IP.
If it can be useful for gentoo-sparc, please, by all means, use it.
You can boot it whenever it's needed, and run it for as long as you need it
(within reason, this thing is a power hog).

This machine was used as a build box for DilOS (http://www.dilos.org/)
before, but that has now been moved to two t5120s, so this v880 is now
available again.
It worked quite well as a build box due to the 8 cpus and plenty of ram.

Contact me for access and setup.

Kind Regards,

-Kevin

Re: A machine for the project [ In reply to ]

jmorgan at gentoo

Aug 8, 2016, 4:02 PM

Post #2 of 5 (2719 views)

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Kevin,

Thank you for the offer to use your hardware. Unfortunately, I have
enough hardware for my needs. We have a larger need for people willing
to help out then hardware. Perhaps, you would be willing to make builds
via catalyst or do arch testing (AT). Let us know if you are able to
commit some time. thanks again.

On 07/29/16 09:06, Kevin Stabel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I saw this on the gentoo-sparc project page
> : https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Gentoo/Staffing_Needs/SPARC_Team_Member
>
> I have a v880 sitting in my office with the following specs:
> - 8 x US-III+ @ 1.2ghz
> - 16G ram
> - Bunch of FC and cassini ethernet cards
> - Working RSC
> - Only two tiny (8G) local disks, which are just enough to boot from
> - Connected over GigE to a synology NAS with 7 TB of net storage
> available, can do ISCSI, NFS, etc ...
>
> I would like this machine to be useful to the community.
> It sits in my office in a separate (noise insulated) room. It is
> reachable over a 70 mbit VDSL line with a static IP.
> If it can be useful for gentoo-sparc, please, by all means, use it.
> You can boot it whenever it's needed, and run it for as long as you
> need it (within reason, this thing is a power hog).
>
> This machine was used as a build box for DilOS (http://www.dilos.org/)
> before, but that has now been moved to two t5120s, so this v880 is now
> available again.
> It worked quite well as a build box due to the 8 cpus and plenty of ram.
>
> Contact me for access and setup.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> -Kevin

--
Jack Morgan
Pub 4096R/761D8E0A 2010-09-13 Jack Morgan <jmorgan@gentoo.org>
Fingerprint = DD42 EA48 D701 D520 C2CD 55BE BF53 C69B 761D 8E0A

Re: A machine for the project [ In reply to ]

kevin.stabel at gmail

Aug 9, 2016, 1:41 AM

Post #3 of 5 (2719 views)

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Hi Jack,

I'd love to help, but i don't have all that much spare time.
That being said, i'll read up a bit on what you expect of me.
Or perhaps you could tell me?

Kind Regards,

-Kevin

On Aug 9, 2016 01:02, "Jack Morgan" <jmorgan@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Kevin,
>
> Thank you for the offer to use your hardware. Unfortunately, I have
> enough hardware for my needs. We have a larger need for people willing
> to help out then hardware. Perhaps, you would be willing to make builds
> via catalyst or do arch testing (AT). Let us know if you are able to
> commit some time. thanks again.
>
>
> On 07/29/16 09:06, Kevin Stabel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I saw this on the gentoo-sparc project page
> > : https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Gentoo/Staffing_Needs/
> SPARC_Team_Member
> >
> > I have a v880 sitting in my office with the following specs:
> > - 8 x US-III+ @ 1.2ghz
> > - 16G ram
> > - Bunch of FC and cassini ethernet cards
> > - Working RSC
> > - Only two tiny (8G) local disks, which are just enough to boot from
> > - Connected over GigE to a synology NAS with 7 TB of net storage
> > available, can do ISCSI, NFS, etc ...
> >
> > I would like this machine to be useful to the community.
> > It sits in my office in a separate (noise insulated) room. It is
> > reachable over a 70 mbit VDSL line with a static IP.
> > If it can be useful for gentoo-sparc, please, by all means, use it.
> > You can boot it whenever it's needed, and run it for as long as you
> > need it (within reason, this thing is a power hog).
> >
> > This machine was used as a build box for DilOS (http://www.dilos.org/)
> > before, but that has now been moved to two t5120s, so this v880 is now
> > available again.
> > It worked quite well as a build box due to the 8 cpus and plenty of ram.
> >
> > Contact me for access and setup.
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> >
> > -Kevin
>
> --
> Jack Morgan
> Pub 4096R/761D8E0A 2010-09-13 Jack Morgan <jmorgan@gentoo.org>
> Fingerprint = DD42 EA48 D701 D520 C2CD 55BE BF53 C69B 761D 8E0A
>
>
>

Re: A machine for the project [ In reply to ]

jmorgan at gentoo

Aug 9, 2016, 6:55 AM

Post #4 of 5 (2718 views)

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Kevin,

On 08/09/16 01:41, Kevin Stabel wrote:
> Hi Jack,
>
> I'd love to help, but i don't have all that much spare time.
> That being said, i'll read up a bit on what you expect of me.
> Or perhaps you could tell me?
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> -Kevin
>
> > I have a v880 sitting in my office with the following specs:
> > - 8 x US-III+ @ 1.2ghz
> > - 16G ram
> > - Bunch of FC and cassini ethernet cards
> > - Working RSC
> > - Only two tiny (8G) local disks, which are just enough to boot from
> > - Connected over GigE to a synology NAS with 7 TB of net storage
> > available, can do ISCSI, NFS, etc ...
> >
> > I would like this machine to be useful to the community.
> > It sits in my office in a separate (noise insulated) room. It is
> > reachable over a 70 mbit VDSL line with a static IP.
> > If it can be useful for gentoo-sparc, please, by all means, use it.
> > You can boot it whenever it's needed, and run it for as long as you
> > need it (within reason, this thing is a power hog).
> >

There are two ways you can use your system to help.

First, you could help by doing builds of stages and ISO. You will need
to learn about Catalyst via the Releng project[1].

Second, you can help by testing packages as an Arch Tester (AT)[2] for
sparc.

It really depends on how much time you want to contribute.

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:RelEng
[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:SPARC/Arch_tester

Thanks,
--
Jack Morgan
Pub 4096R/761D8E0A 2010-09-13 Jack Morgan <jmorgan@gentoo.org>
Fingerprint = DD42 EA48 D701 D520 C2CD 55BE BF53 C69B 761D 8E0A

Re: A machine for the project [ In reply to ]

brendanhoran at basstech

Aug 15, 2016, 2:33 AM

Post #5 of 5 (2703 views)

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----- On 9 Aug, 2016, at 9:55 PM, Jack Morgan jmorgan@gentoo.org wrote:

> There are two ways you can use your system to help.
>
> First, you could help by doing builds of stages and ISO. You will need
> to learn about Catalyst via the Releng project[1].
>
> Second, you can help by testing packages as an Arch Tester (AT)[2] for
> sparc.
>
> It really depends on how much time you want to contribute.
>
>
> [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:RelEng
> [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:SPARC/Arch_tester

Time is always the issue :)

However I would also like to eventuality help out too.
I have a T5120, I would like to get the ISO images up to-date.
Maybe AT later on as well.

Thanks for the info Jack!