On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Phil Endecott
For a while I have been wondering about volunteering an ARM Linux machine to run tests; please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that the current testing is done on x86 and one POWER system.
This would be great, I've been trying (without success) to get an ARM test runner up for several months now.
I have a box with a dual-core Cortex-A15 (Samsung Exynos 5) and 2GB of RAM running Debian that is mostly idle. It currently has g++ 4.6 installed. But could it successfully run the tests in a sane period of time without choking? Has anyone observed what the peak RAM requirement is? What is the typical run time on an x86 system?
What hardware is this? Is it publically available for purchase? I've been looking high and low for something with 2GB+ of RAM (I wouldn't try running the regression tests with less than this) that I could get Debian onto. I tried some cheap android stick that was made for putting android on TV via a HDMI port, but I couldn't find a good kernel for the Allwinner CPU. Tom