Re: DSA concerns for jessie architectures (mips*)

On 06/24/2013 07:36 AM, Aron Xu wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Luca Filipozzi <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 05:34:42PM +0800, Aron Xu wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Paul Wise <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Peter Palfrader wrote:
>>>>> If our existing eight-year old hardware is the only mips machines we can
>>>>> reasonably get then that doesn't bode well for mips.  We don't think
>>>>> relying on the SWARMs (alone) is an option.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps Cavium will interested in providing newer hardware now that
>>>> there is a MIPS N64 GSoC project underway. They offered some decent
>>>> hardware last year in association with such a port:
>>>>
>>>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-mips/2012/02/msg00001.html
>>>> http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2013/Projects#MIPS_N32.2FN64_ABI_port
>>>> http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2013/StudentApplications/EleanorChen
>>>>
>>>
>>> I believe Cavium's David Daney is on debian-mips, we can talk to him
>>> to see if there is any possibility of making donation.
>>
>> It would be wonderful to refresh our mips environment as our current mips
>> environment is not healthy.  We gladly accept hardware donations but would
>> appreciate if the donated hardware be equivalent to that available
>> commercially.  Of the four existing donated boxen that we operate at ubcece,
>> one has never worked (fatally defective) and two are very unreliable.  We also
>> had to modify them to boot on power-up.
>>
>> Do the Cavium machines have any remote management features (similar to Sun
>> ALOM, HP iLO, Dell DRAC) that allow access to a serial console and to power
>> management?  Alternatively, can they be configured to power on after a power
>> loss so we can attach them to a remotely controlled power distribution unit?
>> Do they boot from local storage?
>>
>> Any help you can provide in securing newer mips equipment is appreciated.  We
>> MUST refresh our mips environment if we wish to continue offering a mips port.
>>
>> As mentioned, we will need a number of machines to satisfy the various
>> requirements (geographically distributed buildd machines, accessible porter
>> machine(s), etc.).
>>
>>> As for the GSoC project, the student seems to not get access to the
>>> hardware Cavium offered, nor the main mentor (Cc'ed), so there is no
>>> feedback about stability/other stuff about those hardware.
>>
>> Why were the GSoC students unable to obtain access to the hardware?
>>
>
> David once said he has prepared the machine, but we haven't got
> response from him when asking for shell access.

The good news:

Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 ebh5600-dd ttyS0

ebh5600-dd login: root
Password:
Last login: Tue Jun  4 11:25:39 PDT 2013 on ttyS0
Linux ebh5600-dd 3.9.4 #18 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 4 11:18:44 PDT 2013 mips64

The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
root@ebh5600-dd:~# uptime
  15:11:53 up 20 days,  3:45,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
root@ebh5600-dd:~# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             910G   26G  838G   3% /
tmpfs                 2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                   10M   24K   10M   1% /dev
tmpfs                 2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm


The slightly less good news:  I am leaving on vacation until July 13, so 
I cannot get the thing on a public network until I get back.

Also I don't recall any requests for shell access after the initial 
discussions about the system

David Daney


>
> Also, are you interested in asking Lemote for there Loongson 3A machines?
>
>
> Regards,
> Aron
>
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