Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-21 Thread Hiroyuki Yamamoto
Hi, Breno Breno Leitao wrote: > Hi, > > Now that PowerPC was announced to have Little Endian support, I'd like to > enable > it on Debian, as a ppc64el architecture. In the point of making architecture dependence 10890 source packages, which Debian has already had, correspond to any architectu

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-21 Thread John David Anglin
On 21-Sep-13, at 7:23 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: I'll continue testing/software development activity on ia64 for the Jessie cycle, and more generally, until Debian drops ia64. I'm already waiting for Wayland on ia64 and other big updates. So please, keep ia64 in the bandwagon ;-) But I don't

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2013-09-21 at 19:36 +0200, Émeric MASCHINO wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a long-time ia64 Debian user (> 10 years). I'm mostly focused on > desktop aspects (GNOME, Iceweasel, LibreOffice, Qt Creator, C++ 3D > software development) while most other ia64 users that I know are more > inclined on serve

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-21 Thread Breno Leitao
Hi Bastian, On 09/21/2013 03:22 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: > Can you please describe the advantages of this new port? This is going to be part of the OpenPower consortium. This article[1] describe a little bit about the about the architecture. > What versions of the Linux kernel, gcc, glibc are ne

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-21 Thread Breno Leitao
On 09/21/2013 03:54 PM, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Sat, 2013-09-21 14:42:53 -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: >> Now that PowerPC was announced to have Little Endian support, I'd like to >> enable >> it on Debian, as a ppc64el architecture. >> >> I have been working internally at IBM on a Debian ro

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-21 Thread Breno Leitao
On 09/21/2013 03:22 PM, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 02:42:53PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: >> Now that PowerPC was announced to have Little Endian support, I'd like to >> enable >> it on Debian, as a ppc64el architecture. > > Can you please describe the advantages of this new po

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-21 Thread John David Anglin
Hi, Although I'm not a DD/DM, I currently do the majority of the Debian unstable package builds for parisc. As noted by Helge, these are available at www.parisc-linux.org . While not fully complete, the archive contains several thousand packages that are constantly being updated. We are

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-21 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Sat, 2013-09-21 14:42:53 -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: > Now that PowerPC was announced to have Little Endian support, I'd like to > enable > it on Debian, as a ppc64el architecture. > > I have been working internally at IBM on a Debian rootfs that runs on this > architecture. As a plan, I am lo

Re: New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-21 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 02:42:53PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: > Now that PowerPC was announced to have Little Endian support, I'd like to > enable > it on Debian, as a ppc64el architecture. Can you please describe the advantages of this new port? What versions of the Linux kernel, gcc, glibc are

New architecture ppc64el on Debian

2013-09-21 Thread Breno Leitao
Hi, Now that PowerPC was announced to have Little Endian support, I'd like to enable it on Debian, as a ppc64el architecture. I have been working internally at IBM on a Debian rootfs that runs on this architecture. As a plan, I am looking, in general, to have this architecture included on sid, fi

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-21 Thread Émeric MASCHINO
Hi, I'm a long-time ia64 Debian user (> 10 years). I'm mostly focused on desktop aspects (GNOME, Iceweasel, LibreOffice, Qt Creator, C++ 3D software development) while most other ia64 users that I know are more inclined on server use. I'm not a DD/DM, but daily update my ia64 workstation, report