Purpose

The purpose of this page is to demonstrate that arm meets the architecture recertification criteria for lenny.

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. Aleph One (Balloonboard)

  2. Simtec (CATS, Bast, ...)

  3. ADS (Bitsyx, VGX, AGX, ...)

  4. Linksys (NSLU2)

  5. Arcom (Viper, ...)

  6. ARM Corp (Integrator?)

  7. Nokia (770)

  8. iRiver PMP-120/140, GPL'd firmware

  9. Intel (IXDP240x, IXP28xx, ...)

  10. Radisys (ENP-2611, ENP-2605, ...)

  11. PePLink (MANGA, MANGA Mini, ...)

  12. Castle (Iyonix)

  13. Loft (IXP42x)

  14. Glomation (GESBC-9312-sc, ...)

  15. Technologic Systems (TS-7200, TS-7250, TS-7260, ...)

  16. LogicPD (PXA270 Card Engine) oh, and about 100 others.

Developer machines

The following machines are available to developers:

  1. agnesi.debian.org. Thanx to Joey Hess for making this happen, I believe.

  2. Vince Sanders (Kyllikki) maintains a machine to which developers can be given specific access. jennifer.kyllikki.org port 1022. Mail vince@debian.org to ask for an account.

Port maintainers

The Debian port is maintained by the following developers, who actively work on architecture specific issues:

  1. Martin Michlmayr (tbm) debian-installer, kernel
  2. Riku Voipio, general
  3. Wookey, buildds, general
  4. Colin Tuckley, general
  5. Aurelien Jarno, general
  6. Gordon Farquharson, kernel, debian-installer

Users

The port is being actively used at the following sites:

  1. Cambridge University Engineering Dept: 25 machines (Balloon3), 100 users, robotics teaching course.
  2. bar: 1 machine, yyy users, development server
  3. ...

According to popcon, arm has 806 users as of 21st January 2008 making it the 3rd most used arch in Debian.

Installer

The installer is being maintained by Martin Michlmayr 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 from 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 stable release team have noted the following problems in supporting the architecture:

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


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