Debian Conference 2014

Speaker: Aurelien Jarno
General discussion about the MIPS port, including the future mips64 and mips64el ports.

Speaker: Breno Leitao
This is going to be a presentation/discussiong abound adding the new ppc64el architecture in the Debian operating System. This discussion is going track the ppc64el progress and the missing parts. This is a draft of the agenda that I would like to follow: The Power8 little endian architecture (together with PowerKVM) The OpenPower Foundation PPC64 Little Endian Toolchain and new ABI Cross-compilation phase rootfs Buildd

Speaker: Steve McIntyre
General discussion on how ARM is going: the existing armel and armhf ports, and the exciting new world of arm64.

Speaker: Wookey
Update on the work on making debian bootstrappable. BuildProfiles infra and package-fixing, rebootstrap, cross-building, and recent port work, including news from last week's sprint.

Speaker: Agustin Henze
How we got a toolchain for Jessie! This talk is an update of the status of Embedded ARM toolchain in Debian since last Debconf in Switzerland, when Keith Packard talked about the support and work needed on Cortex-M0 and M3 chips. Today we can say that Jessie will be released with a complete and an amazing ARM toolchain for Embedded Systems, providing support for all cortex-A*/R*/M* processors. When you acquire a beautiful embedded board, you realize that at some point you will be needing to download tons of proprietary and distributed binary-only software, or build a lot of projects from scratch just to try blinking a LED. Now, you have the alternative of using the ARM Bare Metal Toolchain provided by Debian altogether the favourite flavoured IDE of your choice. On the same page, there are some important areas of improvements we need to work on, one of them being improving documentation, helping to reduce a steepy learning curve.