Hi Nico,

Devuan could do with one or 2 more well provisioned amd64 buildhost - ie
8GB ram, decent number of vcpu's and ~ 80GB fast (pref ssd) storage.

It would be pretty much idle 99.9% of the time but when it runs it would
push signficant cpu load.

A local Devuan/Debian mirror would be useful as well to speed up builds
significantly (the slowest part for most packages is installing all the
build dependencies.

Regards,
    Daniel

On 15/12/18 09:50, Nico Schottelius wrote:
>
> Hey mtx,
>
> would ungleich providing a beefy(*) VM for kernel builds make your life
> easier or more productive for Devuan?
>
> If so, we might be very open for sponsoring.
>
> Best,
>
> Nico
>
> (*) Not sure if this is still politically correct, otherwise read it as
> "full of tasty vegetables", please.
>
>
> Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult <lkml@???> writes:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>>
>> while trying to build a debian kernel w/ some minor config changes
>> (actually, just need the gpio keyboard modules), I've stumpled across
>> several strange problems and finally found out that the patches
>> haven't been applied on the main tree (in contrast to rt tree) .. this
>> ate up a lot of time, as the build takes so long (unfortunately, I don't
>> have the luxory of possessing a 120 core machine ;-)).
>>
>> When I look at the build rules, I really wonder why it's all so complex.
>>
>> Some things that IMHO contribute to that complexity:
>>

>> * several source trees - rt vs none:
>>   --> can't we do this with one tree ?
>>   --> if necessary, fixup the rt patches, so they don't do anything in
>>       non-rt build (eg. proper #ifdef's) ?
>> * arch specific patches - same story like rt
>> * auxillary tools
>>   --> can't we build them completely separately ?
>>       (IMHO, shouldn't have an hard dependency on currently running
>>       kernel)

>>
>> If it's just a matter of resources, I'd like to join in and do the job.
>>
>>
>> --mtx
>
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