You may or may not have noticed that 'arm64' is coming. This a 64-bit arm architecture also known as 'aarch64' and implemented in the ARM CPU architecture 'v8'. Apart from iphones there is no publically available 64-bit silicon yet, but that'll be changing rapidly later this year and this port will start to become quite important.
The arm64 port is now building on real buildds in debian-ports (as opposed to my previous bootstrapping efforts in Ubuntu and my initial Debian bootstrap repo on people.debian.org). It recently passed 3000 (source) packages. 207 packages FTBFS so far, so if your packages are there please take a look and fix them (or ask for advice if it's not clear what's needed). http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/architecture.php?a=arm64&suite=sid There are about 270 pending arm64 bugfixes, some of which will be for those build failures: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-...@lists.debian.org;tag=arm64 If there is an Ubuntu patch for your package is also very likely to contain an arm64 fix. If upstream changes are needed please check the Linaro aarch64 bugtracker ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-aarch64 ), and if there is no mention please bring it to the attention of Riku Voipio or me so we can put it on a list. The main doc for the port is https://wiki.debian.org/Arm64Port I've started a section there on porting for maintainers: https://wiki.debian.org/Arm64Port#Porting_packages_for_arm64_-_Maintainer_info which should give some pointers. There isn't (yet) a proper DSA porting box, but I can give you shell access to a machine if you need it. Just ask. Further builds are currently stalled on qt4/kdelibs/gtk+3/swig/php/openjdk. Once that lot is done libselinux, gettext and db5.3 can be built properly and much of the rest of the archive will become buildd-buildable. I expect this to happen in May. I'm mostly offline for the next couple of weeks (at conference + holiday afterwards) so nothing much will happen for a while, but if some of you have fixed stuff when I get back that would be lovely :-) Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140420012701.gv29...@stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk
