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.
Debian fully supports a port to little-endian ARM (arm). The new ARM EABI (armel) port is currently being integrated in Debian, and porters are working to get it included in the next Debian Release (Lenny). The plan is to deprecate old (arm) port in favour of new (armel) port after Lenny release.
As of our latest release, Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r4, the following ARM sub-architectures are fully supported:
In our next release, we will add support for:
Some sub-architectures have partial or incomplete support:
Please see the release notes and installation manual for more information.
agnesi.debian.org and leisner.debian.org are available to Debian developers for ARM porting work. Please see the machine database for more information about these machines. In general, you will be able to use the three chroot environments: stable (sarge), testing (etch) and unstable (sid). You can use the dchroot program to access them. For any inquiries mail debian-admin@lists.debian.org.
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.
You can find us on IRC on irc.debian.org on the channel #debian-arm.
This is a list of significant people who are currently involved in the Debian ARM port.
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.
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