Hector Oron is a communication engineer working at Toby Churchill Ltd as a R&D developer. Since 2001 he has also worked for embedded ARM companies and as a freelance engineer at Elecmos where his jobs have included linux device drivers, bootloader and root filesystems development for embedded systems in a real-time and safety critical environment, among others. He has also been managing and maintaining Emdebian Free Software project, an official Debian subproject.
Hector is an official Debian and Emdebian developer, and he is involved in multiple tasks, including...
Emdebian - framework for cross building Debian DPKG packages
EmdebianToolchain - compile code for foreign architectures
- Infrastructure and webpages development
- Part of the multiarch specification group to include cross building
- Porting
Hector is interested and helps ocassionally on porting for other Debian architectures, mostly ArmEabiPort, ArmHardFloatPort but also interested on SH4, MIPSPort and PowerPC.
- Debian on devices:
- Debian Admin
- Porterboxes admin
- Debian Buildd
- Backup buildd maintainer for armel architecture
Roadmap
Bugs
431800 [rmadison]: please add Debian unofficial ports support
595286 ITP: barebox -- Barebox (u-boot-v2) is a bootloader.
535905 ITP:shellinabox -- publish command line shell through AJAX interface
594878 [flash-kernel] flash-kernel: please add mv78xx0 support
592614 valgrind: `arm' is not a valid release architecture
596064 [xserver-xorg] xserver-xorg: /usr/bin/X hangs (CPU 100%) on nVidia Corporation GT218
572431 [busybox] busybox: add cross compilation support
572117 [kernel-package] kernel-package: please, add support for uboot images (uimage)
572945 [device-tree-compiler] device-tree-compiler: could you update to later release?
596716 debian-installer: please add easy path to bpo and volatile sources
592618 tcc: FTBFS on armel architecture
Contact
I can be reached at Debian IRC OFTC/#emdebian, nickname zumbi and other IRC channels. There are some minor details at Emdebian site and Elecmos Universal site