Heyho all! Thanks for your input. As per this discussion (changed wording for arm/armel; dropped armeb), full diff with some changes against the current index.wml below. Can somebody commit this? I don't have commit access to www. cheers -- vbi +++ Index: index.wml =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/webwml/webwml/english/ports/index.wml,v retrieving revision 1.85 diff -u -r1.85 index.wml --- index.wml 6 Feb 2011 08:15:53 -0000 1.85 +++ index.wml 2 Mar 2011 07:17:39 -0000 @@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ <li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li> <li><a href="#released">Released ports</a></li> <li><a href="#unreleased">Ports that haven't been released yet</a></li> - <li><a href="#nonlinux">Non-Linux ports</a></li> <li><a href="#various">Various port-like projects</a></li> </ul> @@ -30,9 +29,9 @@ </p> <p> Debian is an operating system (OS), not a kernel (actually, it is more - than an OS since it includes thousands of application programs). To - prove this, we have our first three fledgling non-Linux based ports, listed - <a href="#nonlinux">at the bottom of this page</a>. + than an OS since it includes thousands of application programs). Accordingly, + while most Debian ports are based on Linux, there also are ports based on the + FreeBSD, NetBSD and Hurd kernels. </p> <p> <em>Warning</em> — this is a page in progress. Not all ports have @@ -91,10 +90,12 @@ <h3><a href="arm/">ARM (<q>arm</q> and <q>armel</q>)</a></h3> <p> - First officially released with Debian 2.2. - This port runs on a variety of embedded hardware, including the NSLU2. - Armel is the more efficient successor for the <q>arm</q> port, which is - compatible with the ARM EABI. + This port runs on a variety of (embedded) hardware like routers or NAS + devices. The arm port was first released with Debian 2.2, and was supported + up to and including Debian 5.0. Armel (first released with Debian 5.0) is the + more efficient successor for the <q>arm</q> port, which is compatible with the + ARM EABI. These ports target machines with ARMv4t based CPU or newer and + without a floating point unit. </p> <h3><a href="mips/">MIPS CPUs (<q>mips</q> and <q>mipsel</q>)</a></h3> @@ -161,9 +162,13 @@ A fairly new port to Hitachi SuperH processors. </p> -<h3><a href="http://www.debonaras.org/";>armeb</a></h3> +<h3><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/ArmHardFloatPort";>armhf</a></h3> <p> - Port to big-endian ARM machines, especially to Linksys NSLU2. + A lot of modern ARM boards and devices ship with a floating-point unit (FPU), + but the current Debian armel port doesn't take much advantage of it. The armhf + port was started to improve this situation and also take advantage of other + features of newer ARM CPUs. The Debian armhf port requires at least an ARMv7 + CPU with Thumb2 and VFP3D16 coprocessor. </p> <h3><a href="http://www.linux-m32r.org/";>m32r</a></h3> @@ -176,8 +181,6 @@ Port to Atmel's 32-bit RISC architecture, AVR32. </p> -<h2 id="nonlinux">Non-Linux ports</h2> - <h3><a href="hurd/">Debian GNU/Hurd (<q>hurd-i386</q>)</a></h3> <p> The GNU Hurd is a totally new operating system being put together by @@ -211,14 +214,6 @@ <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/";>bazaar</a> fashion. </p> -<h3><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiPort";>ARM EABI Port</a></h3> -<p> - EABI is the new <q>Embedded</q> <acronym lang="en" - title="Application Binary Interface">ABI</acronym> by <a - href="http://arm.com/";>ARM Ltd.</a>. - EABI is actually a family of ABIs and one of the <q>subABIs</q> is GNU EABI for Linux. -</p> - <hr /> <p><strong>Disclaimer:</strong> Many of the above computer and processor +++ -- featured product: Debian GNU/Linux - http://debian.org
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