On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 08:44:30PM +0100, Laurent GUERBY wrote: > For the compile farm project I manage I was proposed a donation of the > exact same hardware (Origin 300 with 4 cpus and 2GB RAM). I'll let > you know when I have more information. > > BTW, in the SGI/MIPS family, do you know what is the most powerful > hardware currently supported (hardware not weighting near a ton, more > like a workstation or a few U)? Bootstraping GCC takes a while these > days :). Some R10000-family based workstation that would be then. That leaves the choice between the Indigo 2 R10000 (supported in tree), O2 (R10000 version not supported in-tree and external patches not stable afaik) and the Octane which is only supported by external patches. If you're just after raw computing power for bootstrapping GCC then maybe what you want is something like a Broadcom Swarm or Big Sur evaluation board which have 2 rsp. 4 pretty beefy cores with FPU. Maybe there is also something Cavium-based that works reasonably well - my Cavium system unfortunately has no PATA or SATA controller and no PCI slots thus no local storage. My personal wish to eval board developers - design those things to be usable like workstations or headless servers, with the option of local storage and a system controller along the lines of an Origins that allows remote reset etc. Costs one microcontroller extra, adds alots of usability. Malta got that one right (send a break on the serial console for reset) and Cavium has an extra serial port for that sort of use. Ralf
