Not to derail this thread too much, but a RISC-V port would be a more forward-looking prospect. Unfortunately, there aren't many commodity SoCs available yet that can run a proper Linux; for now, qemu can be used for emulation.
In terms of the growing hobbyist/robotics/IoT field, a PilOS port to AArch64 (RISC also) like Raspberry Pi would help gain inertia in that direction (which is also on my TODO list). The fundamental and dynamic nature of Lisp would make it an appropriate language for that crowd. I'm not so familiar with ISA development, however, given the open nature of RISC-V, proper extensions could be developed (with funding...) to support specific Lisp features at the hardware level like Lisp Machines of the past or the PilMCU (FPGA)? Sincerely, Kevin On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 7:50 AM Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de> wrote: > Hi Alexander, > > > I would set the probability of my attending at 95%. > > OK, noted :) > > > > BTW is Picolisp already ported to NetBSD/arm64? > > I'm not sure how the situation is on NetBSD, but it definitely runs fine on > Arm64. It is my main use case (in Termux/Android and in PilBox), and I > test it > from time to time on Debian/Arm64. > > ☺/ A!ex > > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe >
