Re: [go-nuts] ARM Cortex-R52 real time chip announced today

2016-09-21 Thread Michael Hudson-Doyle
On 22 September 2016 at 05:54, Ian Lance Taylor  wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 7:16 AM, Ged Wed  wrote:
> >
> > Today ARM announced a new real time chip for cars.
> >
> > http://www.anandtech.com/show/10690/arm-announces-the-
> cortexr52-cpu-deterministic-safe-for-adas-more
> >
> > https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoArm
> >
> > I am curious how hard it would be for golang to target this ??
> > Not that i would be anytime soon, but its seems like it would be great
> for
> > drones, robotics, and hardware that needs to be deterministic in the
> time it
> > takes to complete tasks.
>
> As far as I can see, the Go toolchain should be able to generate code
> today that will run on this processor.


I think the code might be OK (not sure how much the ISA for userland
differs between -A and -R) but I think getting the runtime to work on a
system without an MMU might be an adventure. I'm hardly an expert in such
things though!

Cheers,
mwh

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Re: [go-nuts] ARM Cortex-R52 real time chip announced today

2016-09-21 Thread Ged Wed
Thanks for the response. That's an amazing testament to Yolanda design.

I guess it's just a matter of a board coming out with it on now and then
having a crack at it

On Wed, 21 Sep 2016, 19:54 Ian Lance Taylor,  wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 7:16 AM, Ged Wed  wrote:
> >
> > Today ARM announced a new real time chip for cars.
> >
> >
> http://www.anandtech.com/show/10690/arm-announces-the-cortexr52-cpu-deterministic-safe-for-adas-more
> >
> > https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoArm
> >
> > I am curious how hard it would be for golang to target this ??
> > Not that i would be anytime soon, but its seems like it would be great
> for
> > drones, robotics, and hardware that needs to be deterministic in the
> time it
> > takes to complete tasks.
>
> As far as I can see, the Go toolchain should be able to generate code
> today that will run on this processor.
>
> Ian
>

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