At Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:43:45 -0400, Braden Shepherdson wrote:
I recently acquired the ARM-based Nokia N810 (and <3 it), powered by Maemo. Running a uname -a on it:
I might be one to attempt this, as I know C and ARM-ish asm decently well and have a powerful desktop to compile on. I have no familiarity with GHC internals, though.
I think that is a fine set of qualifications. The porting process requires low-level knowledge of C, asm, and the ARM more than GHC internals. It's mostly stuff like #defining what the names of the ARM registers are, and which ones are preserved across C function calls. Also, if you are not starting until at least Sept, waiting for 6.10 might be a good choice, since it sounds like the backend will be changing quite a bit. No point in doing it twice if there is no rush. j. ps. Perhaps we should have some sort of GHC on the ARM hackathon when 6.10 comes out. I think there are quite a few people who have tried or who are interested in trying a port. Having more heads look at it would probably make things go faster.