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Refurbished PCs have become quite affordable ... Let's turn them into a Build Farm for Apache RTOS, thanks to the Image provided by NuttX

Article: lupyuen.org/articles/ci2

Refurbished PCs have become quite affordable ... Let's turn them into a Build Farm for Apache RTOS, thanks to the Image provided by NuttX

lupyuen.org/articles/ci2

@lupyuen I've been using those Lenovo devices (all 2nd hand) and maxed out with RAM and storage to run Fedora 41. I then use them as the base system to run VMs and containers as well as Ollama etc.

@lupyuen Looking for a similar system that also has a GPU so that it can be my workhorse for Ollama and friends. I am also looking for eGPU solutions so that I can use them as needed.

I wonder if it wouldn't be more efficient to use an ARM host ? so ARM no cross compile and RISC−V is really near architecture, probably less cross emulation effort? Will try to deploy some on a 32GB RK3588 mini-ITX board I've, but need to install other thing that Arch, Arch Linux ARM is the only linux ARM distribution that doesn't have a the RISC-V crosscompiler sadly.

@Popolon Yeah I would love to use an Arm Server. Too bad I'm stuck on Ubuntu x64...

(1) To compile NuttX for all targets (Arm, RISC-V, Xtensa etc), we need the Docker Image for NuttX. Which runs on x64 only, not Arm64:

lupyuen.org/articles/pr.html#a

(2) Today I'm running the NuttX Build Farm on a Refurbished 12-core Ubuntu Xeon Server, 64 GB RAM. Super affordable, compared to Arm servers:

qoto.org/@lupyuen/113517788288

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