Jeremy Olexa from Gentoo actually bought a board. Several Gentoo developers have also received boards through projects, and we're looking into a way we can provide systems for their tinderbox build farm. There are some pictures of what came in the box from Steev.. (BTW Boondock Saints, good taste in movies :)
We have also shipped a few boards to developers and some old Efika Development Edition 2.0 systems (yes, with the problems we had.. but they will still compile stuff) to create small scale clusters for this purpose, including members of the gcc team.
If anyone has any legitimate reason they could use a couple (up to 5) Efika MX systems with no cases, bootable using SD card, for this kind of work, please give us a nudge (matt@genesi-usa...). They support networking so NFS root filesystems are possible, and USB hard disks always work (please use powered drives though, as the Efika MX is not really geared for the kind of power drain on USB that those little 2.5" laptop drives need to spin up). They will need a little configuring but we are very happy to help out on this.
A note about the SD card gratuity program: we shipped all pending customer orders and quite a lot of developer systems this week, and after some frantic work from the guys at FedEx trying to find enough boxes and "Fragile" labels (thanks, guys :) we did finally run out of our stock of SD cards. Efika MX Open Client systems are still being shipped with debug boards for the forseeable future.
root@efikamx:/root# cat /proc/cpuinfo
ReplyDeleteProcessor : ARMv7 Processor rev 1 (v7l)
BogoMIPS : 799.53
Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x2
CPU part : 0xc08
CPU revision : 1
Hardware : Genesi Efika MX
Revision : 51025
Serial : 0000000000000000
Eh eh I found the right power cable :) Now some GCC bootstrap is in order.
Thanks Matt!
First GCC 4.4.2 build on efika testresults:
ReplyDeletehttp://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2009-12/msg00749.html
Now trying with Ada... Then current SVN. Then open to farm users :).
Just got mine a few days ago. I'll be taking pictures once I've got it all set up. Thanks for everyone's hard work on getting these machines out.
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