+++ Steve McIntyre [2013-04-11 18:02 +0100]: > Hi folks, > > I'd like to suggest a project (or maybe several) for the Summer of > Code this year, working on arm64 (aka AArch64) porting.
Good idea. > As arm64 is a new architecture, there's quite a bit of work that could > usefully be done by students in helping us to get the port going: > > * setup of some infrastructure for building packages, both "natively" > in a software model and via cross-building Within debian itself we have some core bits missing that need (essentially) upstreaming from ubuntu if you want to actually build anything (cross toolchain bootstrap, distro bootstrap, a lot of multiarch patches). It should more or less 'just work' in experimental with a bit of kicking but will still take someone a while. Obviously individual package porting work is possible without actually doing that (by building on either an openembedded or ubuntu raring platform), but it won't be very 'debiany'. > * development of a test harness to compare the output of native- and > cross-builders, to help us verify that cross-building is working > correctly This would be great. > * direct porting of software to the new architecture, targeting both > upstream development and Debian packaging (whichever is necessary) > > There are several DDs around who might be interested in mentoring > projects in this area (me, Wookey, Riku, at least...) so we could run > several projects for different students if that fits OK. I'd be very happy to co-mentor for this (or even mentor if the focus is on bootstrapping rather than porting). But I've already put in two suggested projects (one bootstrapping tools, one cross-CI, the latter of which would fit very well with your 'development of test-harness' suggestion above, perhaps we should combine those two?). I don't want to overcommit myself, but then how many slots do we have? I assume it's not 20-something, which is the number of suggested projects we have so far (including this), so not all of these are going to happen.x Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ _______________________________________________ Soc-coordination mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination
