Hello, There has been on-going work to port Debian on ARM devices with later instruction set (armv7) and floating point support. New port [1] is named 'armhf' after discussion on public debian-arm lists [2].
Debian-ports.org holds new port which it is almost at 90% of the archive built [3]. Konstantinos Margaritis has been doing great work and filing bug reports against packages to add support for such new architecture [4]. Debian Installer is being ported as well. In a week time, some of the Debian ARM and Embedded folks are meeting in Cambridge, UK for a Debian sprint [5] to help push 'armhf' into Debian main archive as well as discuss future work for next release to be able to improve our support for ARM and Embedded devices. Following up by another sprint in San Antonio, TX [6]. During following sprint or after we might NMU some packages when it makes sense and maintainer has not been responsive. I would like to ask for comments, advise or whatever useful thoughts you might want to share. There is also a presentation [7] available done during past FOSDEM 2011 at Brussels which might be somehow useful to try to understand ARM history and why do we want another port optimized for netbooks, nettops and other mobile devices with network connectivity. Thanks very much to Genesi [8] Debian partner for hardware and man power support, as well as Toby Churchill, ARM and Linaro. Best regards [1] http://wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatPort [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2010/07/msg00019.html [3] http://buildd.debian-ports.org/stats/armhf.txt [4] http://wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatTodo [5] http://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2011/EmdebianSprint [6] http://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2011/GenesiSprintSanAntonio [7] http://people.debian.org/~zumbi/talks/fosdem2011-arm/ (best view on iceweasel) [8] http://www.debian.org/partners/ #Genesi -- Héctor Orón "Our Sun unleashes tremendous flares expelling hot gas into the Solar System, which one day will disconnect us." -- Day DVB-T stop working nicely Video flare: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100510.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTi=ZUpm9e6KqXJ0BdpONDGUiDvehwqqp93...@mail.gmail.com
