ARM Port
- Debian on arm
- Current Status
- General Information about ARM EABI
- Available Hardware for Debian Developers
- Contacts
- People
- Dedication
- Thanks
- Links
Debian on arm
On these pages you'll find information about the ongoing effort of porting Debian GNU/Linux to the ARM architecture which is often found in embedded systems.
Current Status
Debian fully supports a port to little-endian ARM. The ARM EABI (armel) port has been integrated in Debian and the old (arm) port is deprecated.
As of our latest release, Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.7, the following ARM sub-architectures are fully supported:
- iop32x: we support some IOP32x based Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices, such as the Thecus N2100, Intel SS4000 and GLAN Tank.
- ixp4xx: we support the popular Linksys NSLU2 device.
- kirkwood: we support Marvell's Kirkwood platform and we have specific support for a number of devices, including the SheevaPlug, QNAP Turbo NAS (TS-11x, TS-21x and TS-41x) and OpenRD.
- orion5x: we support Marvell's Orion platform and we have specific support for a number of devices, including the QNAP Turbo Station (TS-109, TS-209, TS-409) and HP mv2120.
General Information about ARM EABI
Please see the release notes and installation manual for more information.
Available Hardware for Debian Developers
agnesi.debian.org (arm) and agricola.debian.org (armel) are available to Debian developers for ARM porting work. The machine have development chroot environments which you can access with dchroot. Please see the machine database for more information about these machines.
Contacts
Mailing lists
The Debian ARM port mailing list is located at
debian-arm@lists.debian.org.
If you wish to sign up, send a message with the word subscribe
as the
subject to debian-arm-request@lists.debian.org. The list is
archived at the debian-arm
list archives.
It's also a good idea to sign up with the linux-arm mailing list.
IRC
You can find us on IRC on irc.debian.org on the channel #debian-arm.
People
This is a list of significant people who are currently involved in the Debian ARM port.
- Martin Michlmayr tbm@cyrius.com
Documentation, debian-installer, kernel - Riku Voipio riku.voipio@iki.fi
armel porter and buildd maintainer - Aurelien Jarno aurel32@debian.org
ARM buildd maintainer and general porter - Wookey wookey@aleph1.co.uk
Documentation
Dedication
Chris Rutter
who was the Project Coordinator and Autobuilder Coordinator for Debian ARM
port got killed in a car accident. We dedicate the ARM port's
release in the Debian GNU/Linux woody
distribution to his
memory.
Thanks
These people were helpful in making the ARM port viable for Debian: Jim Studt, Jim Pick, Scott Bambrough, Peter Naulls, Tor Slettnes, Phil Blundell, Vincent Sanders
Links
A dedicated page gather some links related to the ARM port.