Purpose
The purpose of this page is to demonstrate that powerpc meets the architecture recertification criteria for lenny.
It can also be used as a source of information for future recertification pages of PowerPC in Debian.
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:
Developer machines
The following machines are available to developers:
bruckner.debian.org - maintained by DSA, connectivity via freenet.de.
Port maintainers
The Debian port is maintained by the following developers, who actively work on architecture specific issues:
?RogérioBrito
GerfriedFuchs, general issues
RogerLeigh, general issues
Users
The port is being actively used at the following sites:
Rick Thomas: about a dozen old Macs (some ?OldWorld, Some ?NewWorld) used as servers and personal workstations. University and home-hobbyist environment. A variety of models available for testing.
- Nathael Pajani: Used on any new powerpc board from ACTIS computers for kernel development and testing, and then used by some of their customers (I hope so) as I give them a basic debian rootfs.
?RogérioBrito: 3 machines (one ?OldWorld, one ?NewWorld, and one embedded KuroBox).
Popcon indicates 709 users of the architecture at 2008-08-31.
Installer
The installer is being maintained by ... and it's currently working effectively. Successful installation reports are available at the debian-powerpc mailing list.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2008/09/msg00059.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2008/09/msg00065.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2008/09/msg00096.html
Upstream support
Support for crucial packages is provided by:
- glibc: upstream developers of glibc.
- gcc: upstream developers of GCC.
- g++: upstream developers of GCC.
boot loader: http://yaboot.ozlabs.org/ and http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2-faq.en.html
Some of the information above was provided by Josh Boyer on the debian-powerpc mailing list.
Archive coverage and Autobuilder support
The port is currently more than 98% up to date according to the buildd stats, as of 2008-08-31 (95% cut off).
The port has currently built more than 98% of the archive according to the buildd stats, as of 2008-08-31 (90% cut off).
Archive cleanliness
The port builds from unmodified Debian source.
Autobuilders
The following machines run buildds for the port:
- unstable/testing/stable/oldstable
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
Nathael Pajani have noticed the following problem in supporting the architecture:
http://bugs.debian.org/495120 which prevents apt (and certainly other binaries) from running on e500 cores. This is bad on a debian system.