= Purpose =

The purpose of this page is to demonstrate that '''mips''' and '''mipsel''' meet 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.linux-mips.org/wiki/Fulong|Fulong made by Lemote Technology]]
 2. [[http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Bigsur|Broadcom BCM91480 made by Broadcom]]
 3. [[http://www.routerboard.com/|RouterBoard]]
 4. [[http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Cavium_SOC|Cavium Octeon]]

There are hundreds of different system types who were available in the past or are still build. See:
[[http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Systems|linux-mips.org System List]]

= Developer machines =

The following machines are available to developers:
 1. '''casals.debian.org''' (mipsel) - maintained by Noah L. Meyerhans, connectivity via MIT. 
 2. '''vaughan.debian.org''' (mips) - maintained by Noah L. Meyerhans, connectivity via MIT.

Both mips and mipsel could be emulated using QEMU. [[http://www.aurel32.net/info/debian_mips_qemu.php|Installation instructions]]. [[http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/|Ready to use images]]

= Port maintainers =

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

 1. Martin Michlmayr (tbm)
 2. Thiemo Seufer (ths) - d-i, toolchain, kernel, upstream, user support... [mips/mipsel]
 3. Aurelien Jarno (aurel32) - glibc, embedded devices
 4. Ryan Murray (rmurray) - buildd admin [mips/mipsel]
 5. ...

= Users =

The port is being actively used at the following sites:

 1. [[http://www.routerboard.com/|RouterBoard]] sells MIPS boards and includes Debian as its OS [mipsel]
 2. Broadcom uses Debian internally on MIPS and they have donated several machines to Debian to support the port [mips]
 3. MIPS Technologies tests GCC/MIPS using Debian ([[http://lists.debian.org/debian-mips/2005/02/msg00077.html|see debian-mips list]])
 4. eppesuigoccas.homedns.org: 1 SGI O2 machine, 12 users, firewall+proxy+imaps+smtp+web server
 5. Martin Michlmayr maintains a page on [[http://www.cyrius.com/debian/cobalt/|Debian on Cobalt]] and easily received "thanks" from over 50 users.  This port is very popular since Debian (and now Gentoo) are the only ones to provide a modern OS for these machines. [mipsel]

Popcon indicates 26 (mips) and 67 (mipsel) users of the architecture as at 2007/10/28 but these figures are certainly not representative. 


= Installer =

The installer is being maintained by Martin Michlmayr, Thiemo Seufer, Joeyh Hess and it's currently working effectively. It supports the following subarchitectures:
 * SGI Indy, Indigo2, O2 (mips)
 * Cobalt (mipsel)
 * MIPS Malta (mips, mipsel)
 * Broadcom SWARM (mips, mipsel)

= Upstream support =

Upstream support is provided by:
 * glibc: Codesourcery, MIPS
 * gcc: MIPS, Codesourcery
 * g++: MIPS, Codesourcery
 * binutils: Thiemo Seufer, Codesourcery, MIPS
 * kernel: [[http://www.linux-mips.org|Linux MIPS]], i.e. Ralf Baechle, Maciej W. Rozycki (both of MIPS), Thiemo Seufer (MIPS, Debian) and others
 * boot loader: Multiple bootloaders for different supported Platforms:
    * sibyl (Broadcom, Thiemo Seufer, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver) [mips/mipsel]
    * colo (Martin Michlmayr) [mipsel]
    * arcboot (Thiemo Seufer, Guido Guenther, Flo Lohoff) [mips] - Debian is upstream
    * delo (Thiemo Seufer, Karsten Merker) [mipsel] - Debian is Upstream
    * arcload (Julien Blache)


= Archive coverage and Autobuilder support =

 * The port is currently at 97.8% (mips) and 97.5% (mipsel) up to date according to [[http://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph2-week.png|the buildd stats]] (95% cut off)
 * The port has currently built 96.2% (mips) and 95.2% (mipsel) of the archive according to [[http://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph-week.png|the buildd stats]] (90% cut off)

= Archive cleanliness =

The port builds from unmodified Debian source.

= Autobuilders =

The following machines run buildds for the port for oldstable, stable, testing and unstable:
 * ball (mips) - connectivity via Steve McIntyre, buildd logs checked by Ryan Murray, adminned by Steve McIntyre. 
 * mayr (mips) - buildd logs checked by Ryan Murray

 * rem (mipsel) - connectivity via Flo Lohoff, buildd logs checked by Ryan Murray, adminned by Flo Lohoff and Guido Guenther.
 * mayer (mipsel) - buildd logs checked by Ryan Murray

These machines have been donated by Broadcom. They are Broadcom "SWARM"s, aka BCM91250A. The SWARM is an ATX-based system featuring a dual-core 800 MHz MIPS chip, supporting standard DDR RAM and IDE hard drives. These systems can by themselves keep up.


= Vetoes =

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

 * None

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

 * None

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

 * None

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

 * None

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