Debian ARM EABI (armel) port TODO list

State of features for armel

This list omits many features that "just worked" from the beginning, and thus have avoided attention from porters. Thus it looks worse than it is. Detailed package-specific notes are on the page ArmEabiProblems.

Legend

(./)

Great

<!>

Fix in unreleased or BTS

{X}

Unfixed

{i}

Needs confirmation tests

The GCC Toolchain

State

Binutils

(./) Works (RikuVoipio)

Standard C

(./) Works (RikuVoipio)

Standard C++

(./) Works (RikuVoipio)

glibc

(./) Works (RikuVoipio / aurel32)

g77

(./) Made obsolete with GfortranTransition

libffi4

(./) (RikuVoipio)

Objective-C

(./)

Java

(./) Works (RikuVoipio)

Other languages

State

clisp

{X} Needs porting to EABI, see Mat's notes and patches

fpc

{X} Free Pascal compiler. Needs itself to compile itself, available in arm port. Makes 18 binary packages; 8 other binary packages waiting.

ghc6

{X} Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Needs updated binutils in unstable

gnat

{X} Gnu Ada compiler. Requires itself to compile itself. Not provided on ARM old-EABI either. 17 packages waiting.

mono

<!> gtk-sharp builds now, some rarer components have trouble still

ocaml

(./) (native compiler missing)

and a dozen more languages

{X}

Important packages

State

dietlibc

{X} Needs porting Bug #459482. 19 packages waiting

fftw3

(./)

gettext

(./)

kernel-package

(./)

nspr

(./)

iceweasel

(./)

Infrastructure

State

buildd's

(./) 6 buildd's running (RikuVoipio)

build logs

(./) https://buildd.debian.org/ (RikuVoipio)

official archive

(./) 96.69% up-to-date

packages properly signed by DD

(./)

developer accessible machine

(./) agricola.debian.org, other machines publicly available too

official archive inclusion

(./) done. Need to make sure we meet the Archive criteria

testing inclusion

see armelLennyReleaseRecertification (being worked on)

debian-installer

State

d-i base port

(./)

d-i sample images

{i}

d-i nightly images

(./) http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/armel/images/

d-i documentation

{X}

arch-upgrade tool

{X} [ArchTakeover]

http://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph-week.png

Triaging:

NMU:

Other:

Get installed graph to 95%+ zone

Recording Arm EABI bugs to Debian bts

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