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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 10:04:43 +0400
From: Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>
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To: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>
CC: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: netwinder or ARM build platform
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Andrey Panin wrote:
> On 253, 09 09, 2004 at 10:59:17AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> 
>>BK found another bad hard drive today, on our netwinder.  The disk is dieing
>>badly unfortunately and I don't have installation media for this beast.
>>I suspect I can go find it but does anyone know of a faster build platform
>>for arm?  Russell uses bk on arms (no kidding, that's amazing) and so we
>>continue to support it but that netwinder is just amazingly slow.  If there
>>is a faster platform we want one.
> 
> 
> What about these beasts http://www.iyonix.com/ ?
> 

I don't know about the netwinder, but I do a lot of native builds on my iPAQ 5550 (400MHz 128MB Ram) 
using a full debian install chroot over nfs with a PCMCIA network card. It's solid and reliable anyway.

Regards,
Brad
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