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

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
<manuel.montezelo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

 there's always a way round that: a package that "pretends" it is gcc
(i think it is something like "Provides")

> risc-v/lowrisc could also be an interesting project,

 yeees... my only reservation is that they have a golden opportunity
to create something that's actually commercially desirable.... and
they are probably instead going to create something that is only of
interest to academia.

l.