From: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
To: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml on ppc64 (Linux)?
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:33:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <471F9006.8000905@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071023165211.GA8917@furbychan.cocan.org>
> Does anyone know of the status of OCaml on ppc64 on Linux?
> It's a secondary Fedora platform and therefore I'd like to support it.
> Someone at Red Hat did some work on trying to port it, but it was
> still quite broken AIUI:
Right. I followed David Woodhouse's attempts from a distance. While
PPC64/MacOSX (supported in OCaml 3.10) is a small change from PPC32/MacOSX,
there are significant differences between PPC64/Linux and PPC32/Linux
-- or for that matter PPC64/Linux and all other PPC platforms.
> Is there anything we can do to help it along (eg. hardware purchase or
> also we can give out limited accounts on a PPC64 machine)?
My initial reaction was to conclude that PPC64 isn't worth the porting
effort: Apple killed the PowerPC architecture on the desktop, and
while PowerPC is still strong in the embedded world, it's in 32-bit
mode. Then someone told me that the Playstation 3 is a PPC64/Linux
platform... I'm still not quite sure whether having OCaml on
PPC64/Linux is worth the effort, even if we had the corresponding hardware.
- Xavier Leroy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-24 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-23 16:52 Richard Jones
2007-10-24 18:33 ` Xavier Leroy [this message]
2007-10-24 19:29 ` [Caml-list] " Adrien
2007-10-24 21:13 ` Gordon Henriksen
2007-10-24 22:08 ` Christophe Raffalli
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