From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 25 14:11:09 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 281E4106566C for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:11:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from craig001@lerwick.hopto.org) Received: from lerwick.hopto.org (81-178-20-70.dsl.pipex.com [81.178.20.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 643E98FC27 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:11:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 92865 invoked by uid 98); 25 Mar 2010 14:26:17 +0000 Received: from 192.168.0.2 by polaris.lerwick.hopto.org (envelope-from , uid 82) with qmail-scanner-2.01 (clamdscan: 0.95.1/9971. hbedv: 7.9.1.53/7.1.6.174. spamassassin: 3.2.5. Clear:RC:1(192.168.0.2):. Processed in 0.058801 secs); 25 Mar 2010 14:26:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.2?) (192.168.0.2) by lerwick.hopto.org with SMTP; 25 Mar 2010 14:26:17 +0000 From: Craig Butler To: Ken Smith In-Reply-To: <4BAB4AB9.2090908@buffalo.edu> References: <4BA9C0AC.3080801@wooh.hu> <20100324075709.GC13561@lonesome.com> <20100324223809.GA34342@alchemy.franken.de> <4BAB4AB9.2090908@buffalo.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:11:00 +0000 Message-ID: <1269526260.2007.3.camel@main.lerwick.hopto.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark Linimon , FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org, kensmith@freebsd.org, Marius Strobl Subject: Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available? X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:11:09 -0000 On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 07:36 -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 3/24/10 6:38 PM, Marius Strobl wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 02:57:09AM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: > >> You're the first one to ask in a while. Since our userbase is small, > >> and developer time is limited, we've never set it up. > >> > > > > The last time this topic came up IMO there was quite some > > interest in getting this running but the showstopper was that > > cperciva@ said that a requirement for any platform supported > > by freebsd-update(8) would be that the build server is able > > to run buildworld in 1 hour at most (unfortunately I currently > > just can't find that email). My 4x1.5GHz V440 I originally > > intended for this purpose unfortunately still takes 72 minutes > > last time I checked. I suspect a 8x1.2GHz V880 would be able > > to meet this requirement but I simply can't afford the housing > > for such a beast. > > I have none that are faster than 900MHz processors, and the > one with the most processors in it is 6x750MHz. > > > Ken, did the V880s at your university become available as > > intended some time ago? > > At the moment there are two - one being used by portmgr@ > for package builds which is the 6x750MHz machine. The > other I do the monthly snapshots and release builds on, > it's 4x900MHz. This was its performance on the world > built of 7.3-RELEASE: > > >>> World build started on Sat Mar 20 23:34:54 EDT 2010 > >>> World build completed on Sun Mar 21 00:50:58 EDT 2010 > Can we bend the rules a little ?? Who set the requirement of an hour ? freebsd-update might be a good thing to have.. Cheers Craig B