BootstrappingANewArchitecture

Architectecture Bootstrapping BOF

status of architectures for hoary hedgehog

• supported: amd64, i386, powerpc
• in the archive: ia64
• bootstrapped outside the archive: sparc (currently needs both these lines:)

  • deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~fabbione/sparc /

  • deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dists/hoary/main/binary-i386/

• under consideration by some people, not committed:

  • Mips: JeffWaugh, LaMontJones

  • hppa: LaMontJones, others

steps for porting an architecture

LaMontJones will provide this at ArchitectureBootstrapping