[Arm-netbook] EOMA68-IC1t successful board bring-up

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2014-10-15 00:27 Wookey:
>+++ Philip Hands [2014-10-14 21:54 +0100]:
>> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> writes:
>>
>> >  *lol* no.  i'm making some enquiries on how to do a debian port.
>>
>> Look here:  https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBootstrap
>
>As I just come to the end of the 2-4 year (depending what you count)
>arm64 port, I can confirm that there is some expertise on this list on
>how to do new debian ports.
>
>#debian-bootstrap is the IRC channel to use for questions

I am helping with OpenRISC or1k in particular, but also helped a bit
modifying packages which benefited all of the Debian ports added lately
(arm64, ppc64el, mips64el and or1k).  I can probably lend a hand in an
effort to get a Debian port of this new architecture, but of course
people like Wookey have much more experience than me.

A difficult part that I see is if GCC cannot generate code for this
architecture.  I think that many packages expect to be compiled in GCC,
and if they are libraries or important pieces of infrastructure, they
will block packages depending on them.  Even if it's a tiny percentage,
there are more than 10K source packages in Debian nowadays, so it's not
a minor task.


risc-v/lowrisc could also be an interesting project, both for EOMA-68
and and a Debian port, if the project succeds in producing usable
silicon products next year.


Cheers.
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Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>