Hi, 2011/3/30 Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com>: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 02:05:52PM +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: >>Dear release team. >> >>We(sh4 porting team) are now trying to run Debian on Renesas SH(sh4) CPU. >> http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/architecture.php?suite=unstable&a=sh4 >> >>We want to support sh4 by the next release (Wheezy). >> >>- Buildd status >> Currentry, we are finished with build with packages of about 90%. >> http://buildd.debian-ports.org/stats/sh4.txt >> http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/architecture.php?suite=unstable&a=sh4&priority= >> >>- ArchiveQualification of sh4 >> http://wiki.debian.org/ArchiveQualification/sh4 >> >>How do you think about including sh4 in the next release? >> >>If I have say "go ahead!", we will start work with DSA, buildd >>team, security team and ftp-master team. > > Hi Nobuhiro, > > A few questions: > > You say "there is many user waiting for port to Debian" in the wiki > page listed. How many is "many"?
Bill is written, but there is the user of SH/Linux all over the world. Sorry, I do not understand the right value. There are many BSP and products which used SH4/Linux (Debian). There is not the user than ARM, but it is sure that there are many users. > > What are the future prospects for sh4? It seems that STM are > concentrating on ARM-based cores for future products... > STM has license of SuperH, and they have a board for development of the sh4 base. They have original distoribution[0], but there is the user who replaces this with debian. I do not yet know whether STM produces the CPU's of the SH4 base. I will collect more detailed information about this. Best regards, Nobuhiro [0]: http://www.stlinux.com/ -- Nobuhiro Iwamatsu iwamatsu at {nigauri.org / debian.org} GPG ID: 40AD1FA6 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTinuwuUiw9yUxYPARnT=r0G=QP=hu+v0paxju...@mail.gmail.com