From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5EE4A7EEF8 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2015 15:39:08 +0200 (CEST) Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of rich@annexia.org) identity=pra; client-ip=80.68.91.176; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="rich@annexia.org"; x-sender="rich@annexia.org"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: Pass (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: domain of rich@annexia.org designates 80.68.91.176 as permitted sender) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=80.68.91.176; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="rich@annexia.org"; x-sender="rich@annexia.org"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible; x-record-type="v=spf1" Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of postmaster@furbychan.cocan.org) identity=helo; client-ip=80.68.91.176; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="rich@annexia.org"; x-sender="postmaster@furbychan.cocan.org"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0D1BgBcEKVV/7BbRFBbgxMfNWmpDQEBBQGBBJM2hXsCgUZMAQEBAQEBgQuEJAEBBDo/EAsOCgkTEg8FKCEniB4Bzh8BAQEBBgEBAQEehh49hHGFBgeDF4EUBZFIgmoBhGqCXoQ8ggaWaSaDfD0xgksBAQE X-IPAS-Result: A0D1BgBcEKVV/7BbRFBbgxMfNWmpDQEBBQGBBJM2hXsCgUZMAQEBAQEBgQuEJAEBBDo/EAsOCgkTEg8FKCEniB4Bzh8BAQEBBgEBAQEehh49hHGFBgeDF4EUBZFIgmoBhGqCXoQ8ggaWaSaDfD0xgksBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.15,472,1432591200"; d="scan'208";a="170136423" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES128-SHA; 14 Jul 2015 15:39:07 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1ZF0QK-0002C2-Ux; Tue, 14 Jul 2015 14:39:04 +0100 Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 14:39:04 +0100 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" To: Bull Durham Cc: caml-list@inria.fr, rjones@redhat.com Message-ID: <20150714133904.GA21551@annexia.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Native compiler for oCaml on System Z On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 04:35:53PM -0400, Bull Durham wrote: > Hello. I'm with the IBM Linux on Z Open Source Ecosystem Center of > Competency in Toronto. I would like to provide (and maintain) a port > of the OCaml native compiler for Linux on System Z (a.k.a IBM 390 or > s390x). Can someone advise me on whom to contact to begin > discussions on how to make the port available to the wider OCaml > community? Ideally it would be great if it could ultimately become > part of the standard OCaml distribution. Thanks for any advice you > can give. Could it be my wishes have come true .. :-? While I'm not really in a position to help you with the actual port, I can help you in another way: We would include an s/390x backend in Fedora (initially) and RHEL (if it proved stable enough), and this would give you a fair bit of real world testing. We already include downstream backends for ppc64 & ppc64le, the latter provided by IBM. In order to actually do this, what you'd have to do is develop against the upstream OCaml git repository: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml (fork it somewhere), and when you have a working backend, let me know where that is by emailing my redhat.com address and I'll pull it into Fedora. Rich.