Re: armel *and* armhf qualification for Wheezy
[ Responding for both armel and armhf ]
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 01:19:46PM +0100, Adam Barratt wrote:
>Hi,
>
>With the sound of the ever approaching freeze ringing loudly in our ears,
>we're (somewhat belatedly) looking at finalising the list of release
>architectures for the Wheezy release.
>
>Comments on / additions and corrections to the content of
>http://release.debian.org/wheezy/arch_qualify.html would be appreciated,
>as would any other information you think is relevant to helping us
>determine armel's status for the release.
Currently each has only 3 porters listed:
* Riku Voipio, Wookey, Colin Tuckley
* Steve McIntyre, Julian Andres Klode, Hector Oron
These clearly have overlap, plus there are other people including
(OTTOMH, probably forgetting more!):
* Konstantinos Margaritis
* Adam Conrad
* Martin Michlmayr
* Vincent Sanders
ARM in general is very well supported upstream, both in terms of
kernel and toolchain, by a lot of different companies and individual
developers. Several of the Debian porters are employed by ARM and
other companies in the ecosystem
In terms of raw buildd CPU right now, I think we're doing OK, but
memory is more of a limiting factor with bigger C++ builds. I belive
current status is acceptable and we're keeping up with unstable
without any issues. We are expecting newer faster hardware in the next
year (imx6, Calxeda Highbank) which will work for both the armel and
armhf ports. These will be substantially faster than existing
machines, and will also support more memory.
I believe both ports are clearly ready for release with Wheezy.
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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