== Is port cursed? ==
No.
SuperH(SH4) is one of center products of Renesas Electronics.
Linux already works, and there is many user waiting for port to Debian.

== Are machines available to general public? ==

Yes, there are some devices with sh4.

 * HiCO.SH7780-SBC [[http://www.emtrion.com/hico7780_sbc_en.php|emtrion.com]]
  * SH7780 128MB DDR SDRAM / 32MB NOR Flash USB, Ethernet and etc..

 * CAT7760 [[http://www.si-linux.co.jp/index.php?CAT%2FCAT760|Sillicon Linux]] (Japanese only)
  * SH7760 (200MHz) / SDRAM 64MB / Ethernet 100BaseTX x1 / USB1.1 x1
 
 * MS104-SH4AG [[http://www.apnet.co.jp/product/ms104/ms104-sh4ag.html|Alpha Project]] (Japanese only)
  * SH7764 (324MHz) / SDRAM 64MB / Ethernet 100BaseTX x1 and other

 * and other..

== Is full source available? ==

Yes, the SH4 port uses standard versions of the Linux kernel, binutils,
libc, gcc, and other packages.

== Is this architecture related to other architectures already in the archive, or that also should be considered, either now or in the future? ==

This cpu support bi-endian. Many users use little endian. SH4 port uses little endian. 
We may support bigendian in the future. This will become sh4eb in that case.

== Are there 3 or more developers (or n-ms) actively maintaining the port? Who are they? ==

 * Nobuhiro Iwamatsu (Debian Developer)
 * Kenshi Muto (Debian Developer)
 * Takeshi Yaegashi (Debian Developer)
 * Takashi Yoshii (Linux kernel/Qemu Hacker)

== What sort of architecture is this? ==

SH4 is mostly an architecture targeted at the embedded market.


== Does it have any users?  If an embedded system are there real systems shipping that a Debian port will be useful for? ==

The distribution used in Renesas Solutions MS7724 board.[[http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Renesas-Multimedia-Solution-Linux-MS7724/ | MS7724]]

== Is there kernel and toolchain support? At what level? Are the latest versions supported, or are legacy releases required for compatibility with some hardware? ==

SH4 is fully supported in the latest versions of both the kernel and the GNU toolchain.

== Has the ABI stabilised, or are there major ABI changes coming up? ==

Yes, ABI is stable.

== How do you install a system? ==

network install

== Has a buildd been setup? How much of the archive has been built (count by source package, builds of old versions are fine for this case)? ==

Yes. We have 10 buildd. And these are working on debian-ports. 
These build unstable and experimental now

== What hardware is potentially available as a fast buildd? ==

We are using sh7785lcr board to buildd.
This board has sh7785. This cpu is 600MHz.
And this board has 512MB DDR2 memory, PCI slotx2 , S-ATAx2, USB 2.0 port x2, Gitabit ether x1 and DVI.

This board uses u-boot for bootloader, linux-2.6 works.

== Is there any corporate support of this arch, and the Debian port in particular? ==

Renesas Electronics and ST Microelectronics.

== Is there an example box developers can login to to see if it works? ==

Yes, we setuped 2 porterbox.
 [[http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=sumotsu | sumotsu.debian.net]] and [[http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=sh4 | sh4.g15.jp]]

== It's also worth considering whether the port has any special requirements. ==

While debian-installer doesn't make sense for all SH4 targets, we support it for a number of devices.