Breno Leitao <brenohl@br.ibm.com> (2014-04-30): > Hi, > > I have been working to enable ppc64el architecture in Debian, and I would like to > have it as part of the Jessie release. > > Currently, the distro build is still missing some important things that we are > working at the moment, as sending the patches for the packages. > > a) We have an archive that contains a big archive with around 8k arch-dependent > source packages built. > https://wiki.debian.org/ppc64el#Binary_Packages > > b) We have also a buildd building all the upstream source codes, and many of them > are still failing because of the config.guess/sub patches missing. (more than 100 > bugs with patches are still open). > https://wiki.debian.org/ppc64el#buildd > > c) We already have a machine with Debian/ppc64el OS available for Debian usage, > just ask an account on the following link: > https://wiki.debian.org/ppc64el#Development_machines > > d) Most of the applications already has patch for this port, meaning that most of > the remaining work is to get those accepted by the maintainers. > > e) We are working to provide a machine to the DSA. At the moment, we just have > pre-GA machines available, so, we will propose lending a pre-GA machine to the > DSA, and, as soon as we have the GA machines (Power8) we can work to donate those > to the DSA. > > That said, I would like to here from you, what should be the next steps to have > this port as part of jessie. Getting the port into the official archive (ftpmaster playground) should be your very first step (as far as I can tell). Mraw, KiBi.
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