PandaBoard Building Fedora-ARM

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PandaBoard Building Fedora-ARM Mon, Feb 7. 2011


We're adding a group of dual-core, 1GHz, 1GB PanadaBoards to the Fedora-ARM build farm.  Paul Whalen and I hacked up the PandaBoard builder filesystem at FUDCon and I tested it with the farm on Thursday -- so far, it appears to build about twice as fast as the older GuruPlug builders. The PandaBoard's randomly-assigned-at-boot MAC addresses did force us to take a new approach to builder identity, though, because our previous approach of serving the identity via DHCP was no longer practical.

We ordered a total of 15 PandaBoards; 12 have arrived, and the others should be shipped shortly.Two are being set aside for testing, and we'll get the other ten building as soon as possible.

Our plan is to stack the boards on threaded rods, powered by an ATX power supply; the stack will be run on its side (with the boards oriented vertically) to aid in convection cooling. More photos to follow as we get this running! (Yes, that is a Powered by Fedora badge on there :-) )


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#1 - Philip 2011-02-08 06:47 - (Reply)

Please, more photos when you get them set up!

#2 - joergi 2011-02-08 10:45 - (Reply)

where do you ordered the board? on digikeys is no one available...

#2.1 - Chris Tyler 2011-02-08 16:32 - (Reply)

joergi - we orded them from DigiKey back in November. They're great boards, which is why they're backordered ;-)

#3 - joergi 2011-02-08 18:40 - (Reply)

i don't wanna wait 20 weeks for it...
i was thinking about buying the beagleboard-xM instead of it... but the pandaboard is much better...
if you don't need one of your 12, let me know ;-)

#4 - Scott 2011-04-01 10:41 - (Reply)

I ordered mine Feb 28th and it arrived March 29th so I think supply is better now.

I'm also facing the random MAC issue. Ubuntu ran into this a while ago and it looks like it's been fixed upstream as well.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ti-omap4/+bug/673504

#4.1 - joergi 2011-04-01 12:12 - (Reply)

i got mine 5 weeks after ordering...


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