>>>>> "Moffett," == Moffett, Kyle D <Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com> writes: [..] >> I don't think that you will be successful building squeeze from >> scratch for powerpcspe. Some packages need patches to properly build >> on powerpcspe (i think that even includes libc6). Those packages are >> not even in 'unstable' but in 'unreleased'. > This is also correct. Now that "wheezy" is opened up we plan to > submit patches from "unreleased" and get them merged into "unstable" > (and from there to "wheezy/testing"), but there are too many packages > that will probably never be fixed in "squeeze". > For example, the GCC sources currently in squeeze have a rather severe > floating point register bug on PowerPC e500v2. >> By the way I'm going to use debian-powerpcspe for an embedded system, >> too. Already set up a pretty usable build systems on a p2020rdb, >> based on debian-ports sid+unreleased. > I'm glad to know there's others who care about Debian on e500 out > there :-D. >> I usually CC them when posting about powerpcspe-specific issues. >> Maybe they can shed some light on how things are stabilizing, and >> where help is needed (i'd be able to spend a few days per month on >> ppcspe). >> >> You know, the best way to make it more stable is to use it, report >> problems, and contribute patches :) > I'm working on the port intermittently right now; my big task at the > moment is getting our kernel and U-Boot patches upstream, then I need > to roll "official" Debian kernel images. > Once that is done I need to see how many other patches I can get > upstreamed from "unreleased", then try to make an "official" > Debian-Installer release. > Let me know if you have anything in particular you'd like to work on, > I'll give what advice I can! Currently the most severe limitation of powerpcspe is that we have to use 'unstable'. But I don't see that any of the debian-ports architectures carries 'testing', so maybe we won't have 'testing'/'stable' unless everything is integrated into mainline debian? Is there anything I could help with in that regard? Other than that I'm currently trying to get live-boot working on ppcspe. live-build is broken since it relies on debootstrap, which won't work with sid+unreleased packages. Using multistrap for now. I also have a sharp eye on gcc, making sure it's fully functional. Is there anything I can do to help the gcc patches move into wheezy? cheers, David -- GnuPG public key: http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~dvdkhlng/dk.gpg Fingerprint: B17A DC95 D293 657B 4205 D016 7DEF 5323 C174 7D40
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