Hi Wookey, Wookey <woo...@wookware.org> (2014-04-20): > 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 :-)
this is very good news, and I'm happy to read such interesting things on debian-devel@. :) It might be worth posting on debian-devel-announce@ though, so that the developers community at large has a chance to read about it. Mraw, KiBi.
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