New RISC-V builder for NUT CI farm
Published on April 30, 2026 by Jim Klimov
Thanks to contributions collected in recent past, a new SBC was acquired to increase the diversity of the NUT CI farm: an Orange Pi RV2 with 8GB RAM for build scratch area.
I fitted it with an additional NVMe, and fired up first the OrangePi Ubuntu image, with manually added ZFS, but later migrated to their Debian image (to try and install Proxmox) in another rootfs which went as easy as populating that dataset, changing a `/boot/orangepiEnv.txt` and rebooting. I am positively impressed about how well integrated recent distros are with the tech I like :)
Despite 8 cores and NVMe, the SBC is moderately powerful, taking about 15 minutes to configure, build and self-test NUT (without PDF docs) from scratch without caches. A well-cached re-run of that, however, is down to 6 minutes.
I fitted it with an additional NVMe, and fired up first the OrangePi Ubuntu image, with manually added ZFS, but later migrated to their Debian image (to try and install Proxmox) in another rootfs which went as easy as populating that dataset, changing a `/boot/orangepiEnv.txt` and rebooting. I am positively impressed about how well integrated recent distros are with the tech I like :)
Despite 8 cores and NVMe, the SBC is moderately powerful, taking about 15 minutes to configure, build and self-test NUT (without PDF docs) from scratch without caches. A well-cached re-run of that, however, is down to 6 minutes.