On Thursday, January 29, 2015 at 1:12:00 PM UTC-5, Michael Dawson wrote: > > > > On Thursday, January 29, 2015 at 8:19:13 AM UTC-5, Raphael wrote: >> >> >> >> 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? >> > > Sorry cut and paste error on my part. The community is here: > https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/nodejs/hYcfcHaAVNg/OtVqopLz20oJ > > You can ask general questions in the forum and is a good way to direct > them to our IBM team. Opening a new issue in the github is also a good way > to start specific discussions on ppc port. >
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