All in all the Debian Firebird port on Raspberry is very good : It’s quite a nice ARM server for 35$
here are my experiments and all worked as it should (like a similar
x86/x64 server) without issues.
http://mapopa.blogspot.ro/2012/11/debian-and-raspberry-pi-love-small-arm.html
From this table you can see that firebird builds on both ARM and ARMEL ( ARMEL is just ARM with some hardware extras.) and here is the buildlog
If you use debian then you can download from here
Quote from linux tiny mailing list about the ARM market share
According to http://eetimes.eu/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199702110
Arm shipped the processors in 250 million “smart phones” in 2006 (83%
market share in that niche).
As you may have noticed, debian experimental got firebird2.0 (2.0.4) and
firebird2.1 (2.1.0).
I would really appreciate if you give these some testing.
A Nokia-sponsored project is porting Ubuntu Linux to the ARM architecture.
The Firebird Project has ported its lightweight, open-source database to the ARM architecture. The project is looking for help testing a new Firebird 2.1 RC2 release, which in addition to ARM support, adds database triggers, temporary and monitoring tables, common table expressions, and recursive queries
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7532715481.html
[ED: ok the arm port is not merged in the cvs yet but the code is already there in debian’s git or private patches, please ask on devel-list]
Firebird Project has now ports for the top4 embedded processors used in small devices like phones
The top cpu used in that area are arm,x86,mips,powerpc according to linuxdevices survey
http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/article077/embedded_processor_current_trend.jpg
Here are the build results for firebird2.0 package on debian on main cpu architectures used in debian
http://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=firebird2.0
The latest port is for arm cpu , and here is the devel-thread
http://www.nabble.com/arm-port-patch-td16497801.html
