Purpose

The purpose of this page is to demonstrate that amd64 meets the [http://release.debian.org/etch_arch_criteria.html architecture recertification criteria for etch].

If some of these requirements are irrelevant or implausible for the port, please add a waiver request indicating why and how this isn't a problem for the arch in bold.

Availability

The architecture is publicly available without NDAs via:

  1. [http://www.amd.com/ AMD]

  2. [http://www.intel.com/ Intel]

Developer machines

The following machines are available to developers:

  1. pergolesi.debian.org - maintained by DSA, connectivity via freenet-ag.de.

  2. ravel.hpc2n.umu.se - maintained by Mattias Wadenstein, connectivity by univercity of umea, sweden

Port maintainers

The Debian port is maintained by the following developers, who are familiar with arch-specific issues for this port

  1. Kurt Roeckx
  2. ...
  3. ...
  4. ...
  5. ...

Users

The port is being actively used at the following sites:

  1. ...

Popcon indicates 351 users of the architecture as at 2005/10/09.

Installer

The installer is being maintained by Kurt Roeckx and it's currently working effectively. Successful installation reports are available at: ...

Upstream support

Upstream support is provided by:

Archive coverage and Autobuilder support

-> Not of the graph yet, but wanna-build shows 98%

-> Not on the graph, but wanna-build shows 98%

Archive cleanliness

The port builds form unmodified Debian source.

Autobuilders

The following machines run buildds for the port:

Vetoes

The security team have noted the following problems in supporting the architecture:

The Debian admin team have noted the following problems in supporting the architecture:

The release team have noted the following problems in supporting the architecture: