Purpose

The purpose of this page is to demonstrate that mips and mipsel meet 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 definition is developed by [http://www.mips.com MIPS Technologies, Inc.].

Implementations of the MIPS architecture are publicly available without NDAs via:

  1. [http://www.linksys.com/ Linksys] (Range of APs and networked servers)

  2. [http://www.sgi.com/ SGI] (High end servers and workstations)

  3. [http://www.4g-systems.de/ 4G Systems] (Small routers)

  4. [http://www.routerboard.com/ ?RouterBoard]

... and so on. MIPS Inc. maintains a list of [http://www.mips.com/content/Ecosystem/Licensees/ProductCatalog/licensees MIPS Licensees]

Developer machines

The following machines are available to developers:

  1. .debian.org - maintained by ..., connectivity via two tin cans and some string.

Port maintainers

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

  1. ...
  2. ...
  3. ...
  4. ...
  5. ...

Users

The port is being actively used at the following sites:

  1. foo: xx machines, yy users, personal workstations
  2. bar: 1 machine, yyy users, development server
  3. ...

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

Installer

The installer is being maintained by ... 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:

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: