On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo manuel.montezelo@gmail.com wrote:
2014-10-15 00:27 Wookey:
+++ Philip Hands [2014-10-14 21:54 +0100]:
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net writes:
*lol* no. i'm making some enquiries on how to do a debian port.
Look here: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBootstrap
As I just come to the end of the 2-4 year (depending what you count) arm64 port, I can confirm that there is some expertise on this list on how to do new debian ports.
#debian-bootstrap is the IRC channel to use for questions
I am helping with OpenRISC or1k in particular, but also helped a bit modifying packages which benefited all of the Debian ports added lately (arm64, ppc64el, mips64el and or1k). I can probably lend a hand in an effort to get a Debian port of this new architecture, but of course people like Wookey have much more experience than me.
A difficult part that I see is if GCC cannot generate code for this architecture. I think that many packages expect to be compiled in GCC, and if they are libraries or important pieces of infrastructure, they will block packages depending on them. Even if it's a tiny percentage, there are more than 10K source packages in Debian nowadays, so it's not a minor task.
there's always a way round that: a package that "pretends" it is gcc (i think it is something like "Provides")
risc-v/lowrisc could also be an interesting project,
yeees... my only reservation is that they have a golden opportunity to create something that's actually commercially desirable.... and they are probably instead going to create something that is only of interest to academia.
l.