2008/6/25 Braden Shepherdson
Jeremy Shaw wrote:
If any does attempt to build for the ARM, please, please, please, document what you do in the wiki. And, if you do, edit the wiki as you go, you definitely won't be able to remember what you did after the fact. (Or, at the very least, use some program to capture everything you do so that you can refer to it later).
And, finally, I heard vague rumors a while ago that made me think that GHC 6.10 might have a pure ANSI-C backend? Is there any truth to this? That would make porting much easier if it meant you did not have to do steps 1-4.
j. ps. I would be happy to try to answer any questions if someone tries a port. I would still like to run GHC on my 770, and I hope to own an iPhone if they fix a few ommisions (bluetooth keyboard support, and similar stuff).
I recently acquired the ARM-based Nokia N810 (and <3 it), powered by Maemo. Running a uname -a on it:
Linux Nokia-N810-42-19 2.6.21-omap1 #2 Fri Nov 16 16:24:58 EET 2007 armv6l unknown
I would love a working GHC implementation on it, if for nothing else than how awesome it would be. Whether that means using a C back-end or native compilation doesn't matter to me so much.
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. Lastly, I won't have anything like the time to attempt this seriously until mid-September or so.
Oops, forgot to Cc the list. Next year I'll be working on a project for my undergraduate computing course at UNSW that will involve getting GHC to target the Nintendo DS. It'll require cross-compilation, because the DS isn't powerful enough to actually run GHC (4M main ram and a 66MHz processor). It'll also require that I significantly strip down the runtime system, as the current RTS won't fit in 4M and leave any left over for the main application. I'll be documenting the whole process, but I won't be starting until next year... Jeremy