> > excellent question, to which you should be receiving the response by > > now. the summary is this: i do not believe it is off-topic to have > > specific hardware and specific software totally excluded from testing > > at the sprint, on the basis that the only available toolchain, > > libraries and firmware is proprietary, requires an NDA and is only > > given out to the ARM silicon licensees, let alone to end-users. > > I don't know about what firmware and libraries you are talking about, but > at > > least the toolchain that I am using for armhf is Debian's own gcc with > Linaro > patches enabled. As for the hardware, we (Genesi) have already given a > significant number of ARM devices (in total ~100 Smarttops and Smartbooks) > to selected Debian developers (and Ubuntu and Linaro developers as well > as others) to work on exactly this issue: better free software support for > those devices. This specific hardware will also be available at the sprint > -in fact, every developer that will attend the sprint will get a free unit > there, if they do not already own one- so testing software there will be > possible. I am actually using armhf on my boxes here, admittedly with some > problems, but then again it's a new port.
I'm betting that doesn't include docs or free software support for the GPU... Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
