Purpose

The purpose of this page is to demonstrate that ia64 meets the [http://release.debian.org/lenny_arch_policy.html 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. [http://www.hp.com/products1/servers/integrity/index.html HP]

  2. [http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/ SGI]

  3. [http://www.necsam.com/servers/products/series.cfm?series=4 NEC]

  4. [http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Itanium/ ?SuperMicro]

  5. [http://www.bull.com/novascale/index.html Bull]

and others

Developer machines

The following machines are available to developers:

  1. merulo.debian.org - maintained by DSA (Matt Taggart and dann frazier local admins), connectivity via HP, porting machine.

  2. merkel.debian.org - maintained by DSA (Matt Taggart and dann frazier local admins), connectivity via HP, general use machine (no chroots).

Port maintainers

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

  1. DannFrazier

  2. LaMontJones

  3. TroyHeber

  4. IanWienand

  5. ...

Users

The port is being actively used at the following sites:

  1. HP/OSLO: > 3 machines, > 200, shared login systems, mail, web, ...

  2. [http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au Gelato@UNSW]: > 10 research machines, 2 production servers

Popcon indicates 45 users of the architecture as at 2007/10/22.

Installer

The installer is being maintained by DannFrazier 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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