Re: Re: Re: [f-cpu] F-CPU project and Debian

[whygee@club-internet.fr]

hi all !

>De: Russell Coker
>On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 17:29, whygee wrote:
>> >I don't know if it's this is a good idea to start from distribution,
>> > before having the CPU... or a simulator.
>>
>> what i simply propose is to review the existing packages
>> and have a first list of software that can be recompiled
>> without modification (provided the libraries and compiler
>> are adapted too). The package maintainers can indicate
>> us what ports to ALPHA and SPARC-64 created problems and
>> what kinds of problems they found.
>
>As mentioned in a previous message I think that the results for all this can 
>already be found in the build daemon results:
>http://buildd.debian.org/
>
>The stats page http://buildd.debian.org/stats/ shows the statistics of how 
>many packages build on each platform (over 90% for every platform), and 
>allows querying which packages don't build for each platform.

cool graphics :-D

>> > Perhaps it will be a good idea if you can
>> >send me a list of new opcode/instruction for ROP2 before starting helping
>> >porting debian ;-) Or give me a pointer to your latest package.
>>
>> ouch....
>> can we meet this week-end ?...
>
>I get the impression that the main developers are in France and Germany,
This is not exclusive, some people are also in Belgium and
Netherland (for example Jaap has written a big part of the
C simulator). A lot of people are in France because a lot
of articles have found their way in the french press...
And France is a more centralized country, half of the people
are in/around Paris, so it's easier to organise meetings...

> maybe a meeting of FCPU people in the Netherlands would be a good.  I could 
>probably arrange some free and some cheap accomodation in Amsterdam...

It could be funny but after the last events at the huge
LSM, i would prefer to go to a well-established, correctly
organised place. I have my ticket for the 19C3 in Berlin.

However if my job allows, i'll consider going to a
meeting in Holland... Maybe some people from the Hurd,
BSD and Debian teams can organise something in common
with F-CPU so we could discuss all the porting issues...

>If a meeting was held to co-incide with a local computer users group then in 
>return for a presentation they would probably put some money towards train 
>fares.
>
>Let me know if there's interest in this.

We've discussed about some similar stuff after the
last LSM. The problem is mostly with the structure/hosting
and organisation... but it is definitely wanted.

YG

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