On Tue, 2020-09-01 at 15:14 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > [Moving to debian-powerpc as we are getting off-topic on debian- > snapshot] > > On Tue, 2020-09-01 at 06:14 +0000, Budweiser Gregor wrote: > > > Our hardware does not support 64bit > > Interesting, what hardware do you have?
We have powerpc e500 (freescale) based embedded devices. > > > what could we do to help debian-ports? > > I'm not involved in the powerpc port, folks on the debian-powerpc > mailing list can probably help you more, but some initial ideas: > > You could add support for your hardware to Linux mainline: > > https://www.kernel.org/ > > You could donate powerpc hardware so that Debian can do various tests > on powerpc, for example package tests and reproducible builds tests. > > https://ci.debian.net/ > https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/reproducible.html > > You could work on fixing build failures on powerpc: > > https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/ftbfs.cgi?arch=powerpc > > You could work on powerpc-specific bug reports: > > https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/[email protected]&tag=powerpc > https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/[email protected]&tag=powerpc > > You could help maintain the powerpc wiki/web pages: > > https://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/ > https://wiki.debian.org/PowerPC > > You could help maintain the general ports wiki/web pages: > > https://www.debian.org/ports/ > https://wiki.debian.org/Ports > > You could help Debian more generally: > > https://www.debian.org/intro/help > > > we can't just share our deb packages, or could we? > > If you're rebuilding security updates there isn't any Debian suite > where they could be uploaded as Debian ports doesn't have support for > stable or security support. There is potential for the unofficial > ports > to get releases, but that requires lots of Debian infrastructure > work. > Ah, I see. We are looking at the vulnerabilities to see if we are affected. Maybe we can get away with some paperwork. :) I'll have a look at the build failures if time allows, but it'll have to be in my spare time. Thanks again and kind regards, Gregor
