On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 4:11:44 PM UTC+1, Michael Dawson wrote: > > > > On Friday, January 23, 2015 at 2:00:06 PM UTC-5, Ben Noordhuis wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Raphael <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi >> > >> > I'm in the process of evaluating a server side technology to build a >> new >> > product from scratch. It must run on Linux, Win, OSX and on (Yocto-) >> Linux >> > running on self-made hardware: An embedded system using Freescale P5020 >> > PowerPC (and other CPUs out from that family). >> > >> > While I would really like to use Node.js, I'm quite a bit concerned >> about >> > the quality and availability of Node.js for PPC. I've searched the web >> and >> > found the relevant GitHub repos for V8 and node for PPC. I also found >> the >> > IBM node.js SDK (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/nodesdk/) but I >> > couldn't find any recent and reliable information about "current >> status" of >> > the PPC port. Also, as I don't know how to ask questions to the >> PPC-Node.js >> > guys, I'm writing to this mailing list. Is there anybody who can shed >> some >> > light on questions like: >> > >> > - Will ALL relevant PPC related patches of Node and V8 (I know, this >> is not >> > the V8 list, but V8 people may also read this list?) will be merged >> > upstream? Or will they be "forks" for ever? >> > - Is the current state of the PPC ports on GitHub production ready? >> (IBM >> > seems to have 'production ready' versions - but the also mention that >> they >> > send "most" patches to GitHub. How much is "most"?) >> > - What's your advice/opinion about relying on Node.js for PPC? If I >> start >> > programming with it today, it'd be nice if I have some degree of >> confidence >> > that it'l continue to work the next 10 years. (I think I would have >> that >> > confidence with Ruby on rails or Django/Python - can I have it for >> > Node.js/PPC as well?) >> > - Who out there is using Node.js on PPC? Is there a community? >> > >> > Any hints, advices, opinions, etc. are highly appreciated! >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Raphael >> >> The PPC port was merged into upstream V8 about a week ago. >> >> I can't really comment on its quality or stability but io.js (can't >> speak for node.js) will probably roll out preliminary linux-ppc >> support once the PPC port makes it into a stable V8 release. I expect >> that will be in about a month or two from now. >> >> Some cooperation from IBM is necessary (mostly for the hardware for >> the continuous integration) but they were amenable to that, last time >> it came up. >> > > Contributing back the PPC port is a multi-step process so what is in the > google V8 repositories is not yet complete. The patch covering the next > step is being reviewed in this issue > https://codereview.chromium.org/866843003/ which includes an overview of > the remaining steps. Our goal is to get all of our changes for v8 into the > google repositories. > That's great to hear! Thanks for the information and the work you're doing!
> > As we work to contribute our ports back, the repositories for node ( > https://github.com/andrewlow/node) and v8 ( > https://github.com/andrewlow/v8ppc) are the source for our production > builds to which we apply some small tweaks such as adding additional > support for problem determination tools. > > In terms of support for embedded PowerPC chips, there is some work going > in the community (for example issue > https://github.com/andrewlow/v8ppc/issues/119). > I've already found that. As we are as well using e500v2 (Freescale P2020) we may want to run node.js on that platform too. > > There is a community here: https://github.com/andrewlow/v8ppc/issues/119 > where questions will go directly to the IBM Node/V8 team (including > myself). If you have any problems accessing that or submitting questions > there, just respond in this thread and I'll give you my direct contact > info. > > Is this really the right link? You mean I should ask questions to issue 119? Or did you mean I should open new issues when having questions? -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/5387399b-e8cb-4939-906c-d89f26e6571e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
