On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 00:23, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu<iwama...@nigauri.org> wrote: > Hi, Luca. > > 2009/6/20 Luca Bruno <lu...@debian.org>: >> [Sorry for the long CC: list, I was unsure about subscribers] >> >> So, even if this report is quite old, it looks like something is >> currently moving. >> This mail is just to ping all interested parties and sum up relevant >> references. >> >> In a recent thread[1], there were initial discussions about first >> integrating sh4 into debian-ports[2], also to ease a future move into >> the official archive. Buildd and porters hardware is reported to be >> available, but it looks to me that the issue is currently related to >> lack of manpower and people involved. >> >> Porters, commenters and SH fans, would you please speak up and >> coordinate initial setup with Aurelien?
I'm not sure what you mean by "coordinate initial setup", but I am hereby speaking up as an SH fan and will be contributing English documentation shortly. > > Mr, Yaegashi, Mr, Ishikawa and Mr. Niibe are the first proposers who were > going to support SH in Debian. > > This was performed very before. > There were sh3/sh4 and two architecture and an endian in those days. > > I suggested sh3 + kernel math emuration to support sh3 two years ago. > > However, sh3 is still produced now,; but central sh4. > And the new CPU of sh3 is not developed. > > And sh3/sh4 is bi-endian, but most of big-endian is not employed. > I reopened activity with an aim in supporting little endian of sh4. > >> >> Also, it would be good to have general-use knowledge about this port >> available on the wiki, as it's already happening with other ports[3][4] >> [5]. While digging the archive, I found many links to Japan >> documentations and pages: I think you could try to attract more >> contributors just providing more plain English docs. I'm assuming you're referring to www.linux-sh.org. Myself and others are working to get more English documentation out there. > > I made a page of SH4 port. Is your page different from the link here: http://debian.org/ports/#unreleased which points back to www.linux-sh.org? > However, these are not yet enough. > >> >> While at it, can we consider consensus reached to start just with sh4, >> ask for binary-sh removal and then if requested try to add other >> flavors (having learned and gained experience from the past)? >> What justifies SH4 first? Is there a particular piece of hardware based on SH4 that your interested in running DebianSH on? I don't particularly care what variant you target first, but I'm curious why. > > I think it to have possibilities to delete binary-sh as had written on the > top. > However, I want to hear the opinion of other people. > > Best regards, > Nobuhiro > > > -- > Nobuhiro Iwamatsu > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-superh-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
