arm Release Recertification

Purpose

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

Availability

The architecture is publicly available without NDAs via:

  1. [http://www.aleph1.co.uk/armlinux/devboards/balloon/index.html Aleph One] (Balloonboard)

  2. [http://www.simtec.co.uk/ Simtec] (CATS, ...)

  3. [http://www.applieddata.net/ ADS] (Bitsyx, VGX, AGX, ...)

  4. [http://www.linksys.com Linksys] (NSLU2)

  5. [http://www.arcom.com/pc104-xscale-viper.htm Arcom] (Viper,...)

  6. [http://www.arm.com/ ARM Corp] (Integrator?)

  7. [http://www.europe.nokia.com/nokia/0,,74866,00.html Nokia] (770)

  8. [http://www.iriver.com/ iRiver] PMP-120/140, [ftp://ftp.gpl-devices.org/pub/vendors/iRiver/PMP-1xx/ GPL'd firmware]

  9. [http://www.intel.com/ Intel] (IXDP240x, IXP28xx, ...)

  10. [http://www.radisys.com/ Radisys] (ENP-2611, ENP-2605, ...)

  11. [http://www.peplink.com/ PePLink] (MANGA, MANGA Mini, ...) oh, and about 100 others.

Developer machines

The following machines are available to developers:

  1. foo.debian.org - maintained by ..., connectivity via ....

Kyllikki maintains machines to which developers can be given specific access. A general-access developer machine needs putting up as the old one (debussey) has fallen off the net. Nokia have offered to put up a suitbale machine - in progress.

Port maintainers

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

  1. Vince Sanders (kylliki)
  2. Phil Blundell (pb)
  3. Wookey
  4. Riku Voipio (nchip) (not that familiar yet..)
  5. Lennert Buytenhek (buytenh)
  6. ...

Users

The port is being actively used at the following sites:

  1. Kyllikki:
  2. Simtec Ltd:
  3. Wookey at home: 1 netwinder, 2 users, firewall/P2P server
  4. Aleph One Ltd: 2 machines, 2 users, various
  5. Martin Michlmayr: 1 netwinder, 1 user?
  6. ADS maintains a Debian board farm with currently 7 machines and at least 4 regular users.
  7. Adam Powell at home: 1 netwinder, 2 users
  8. Movial, Iyonix machine for scratchbox cpu transparency, ~20 active users, and a pile of arm tablets running a debian fork
  9. Company X, several Iyonix and Simtec CATS machines, tens of users.
  10. Jeroen Massar; Currently 2 NSLU2's for devel + storage etc, 2 other NLSU's optionally for dedicated debian usage + 1 iRiver PMP-140 (debian support is in the pipe! :)

  11. Lennert at home: 1 enp2611
  12. LIACS, NL: 2 enp2611s, 1 enp2605, 1 ixdp2850, 10 users total
  13. PAMurray, US: 2 Mangas, 2 users total
  14. UCSD Extension, US: Embedded Linux course, recommended hardware

Popcon indicates zz users of the architecture as at 2005/xx/yy.

What's a port user? pure debian installed with official debian installer? sarge/woody without debian kernel? debian fork users?

Installer

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

Upstream support

Upstream support is provided by:

Archive coverage and Autobuilder support

Archive cleanliness

The port builds form unmodified Debian source.

Autobuilders

The following machines run buildds for the port:

Offered:

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: