[lug] Embedded linux distro questions

[Michael J. Hammel]

On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 19:15 -0600, David L. Anselmi wrote:
> IIRC, one of the requirements for architecture support in Debian is a 
> network of build machines that can keep up with the queue of incoming 
> packages.  The developers don't have to build their package for every 
> architecture.
> 
> I don't see the specs for the ARM autobuilders but you can find MIPS here:
> 
> http://wiki.debian.org/mipsEtchReleaseRecertification
> 
> so they seem to be desktop class machines.

Looks like Broadcom is using this.  I wonder if that started before or
after the Broadcom Linux guys bailed.  It looks like the Distributions
page on linux-mips.org mentions the Debian build too, since about 2004.
I must have been too focused on rolling my own to notice it back in
2005, probably because I'd come from using MonteVista (on that project
at least) instead of the desktop distributions.

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Michael J. Hammel                                    Senior Software Engineer
mjhammel at graphics-muse.org                           http://graphics-muse.org
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