Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell on ARM (was Re: ANN: Topkata)

2009-01-30 Thread Anatoly Yakovenko
i don't think haskell on llvm exists, so the answer would be no On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Dan Mead d.w.m...@gmail.com wrote: does the haskell on llvm compiler support the ghc extentions? On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Anatoly Yakovenko aeyakove...@gmail.com wrote: ghc llvm port

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell on ARM (was Re: ANN: Topkata)

2009-01-29 Thread Dan Mead
does the haskell on llvm compiler support the ghc extentions? On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Anatoly Yakovenko aeyakove...@gmail.comwrote: ghc llvm port would enable arm support as well. i know there were some issues with llvm when this was discusses a couple of years ago. has anyone

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell on ARM (was Re: ANN: Topkata)

2009-01-28 Thread Braden Shepherdson
Dan Mead wrote: has there been any movement on this topic? i'm also interested in haskell on arm do you guys thing telling ghc to emit C and then compiling that for arm is a better route than getting direct compilation to work? If you look on the GHC-on-ARM page[1], you'll find my

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell on ARM (was Re: ANN: Topkata)

2009-01-28 Thread Conrad Meyer
On Wednesday 28 January 2009 08:15:44 am Braden Shepherdson wrote: Dan Mead wrote: has there been any movement on this topic? i'm also interested in haskell on arm do you guys thing telling ghc to emit C and then compiling that for arm is a better route than getting direct

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell on ARM (was Re: ANN: Topkata)

2009-01-28 Thread Braden Shepherdson
Conrad Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 28 January 2009 08:15:44 am Braden Shepherdson wrote: Dan Mead wrote: has there been any movement on this topic? i'm also interested in haskell on arm do you guys thing telling ghc to emit C and then compiling that for arm is a better route than getting

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell on ARM (was Re: ANN: Topkata)

2009-01-28 Thread Anatoly Yakovenko
ghc llvm port would enable arm support as well. i know there were some issues with llvm when this was discusses a couple of years ago. has anyone checked if that's the case? On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Braden Shepherdson braden.shepherd...@gmail.com wrote: Conrad Meyer wrote: On

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell on ARM (was Re: ANN: Topkata)

2009-01-27 Thread Dan Mead
has there been any movement on this topic? i'm also interested in haskell on arm do you guys thing telling ghc to emit C and then compiling that for arm is a better route than getting direct compilation to work? -dan On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com wrote:

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell on ARM (was Re: ANN: Topkata)

2008-07-25 Thread Simon Marlow
Joe Buehler wrote: Simon Marlow wrote: For the registerised port, you really need a native code generator (the mangler is on death row, yay). At a rough guess, I'd say porting the NCG would take a couple of weeks or so for someone unfamiliar with the code. Hopefully we'll improve that when

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell on ARM (was Re: ANN: Topkata)

2008-07-22 Thread Simon Marlow
Braden Shepherdson wrote: So, assuming some GHC dev doesn't swoop down and fix this, what options are left to the project in the short term? An unregisterised build of an old 6.6 should work, that would get us a working, though aging, GHC. Unfortunately a lot of the porting work to move

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell on ARM (was Re: ANN: Topkata)

2008-07-22 Thread Joe Buehler
Simon Marlow wrote: For the registerised port, you really need a native code generator (the mangler is on death row, yay). At a rough guess, I'd say porting the NCG would take a couple of weeks or so for someone unfamiliar with the code. Hopefully we'll improve that when we refactor the NCG

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell on ARM (was Re: ANN: Topkata)

2008-07-16 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| Linux Nokia-N810-42-19 2.6.21-omap1 #2 Fri Nov 16 16:24:58 EET 2007 | armv6l unknown | | I would love a working GHC implementation on it, if for nothing else | than how awesome it would be. Whether that means using a C back-end or | native compilation doesn't matter to me so much. | | I might be

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell on ARM (was Re: ANN: Topkata)

2008-07-16 Thread Braden Shepherdson
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: | Linux Nokia-N810-42-19 2.6.21-omap1 #2 Fri Nov 16 16:24:58 EET 2007 | armv6l unknown | | I would love a working GHC implementation on it, if for nothing else | than how awesome it would be. Whether that means using a C back-end or | native compilation doesn't matter

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell on ARM (was Re: ANN: Topkata)

2008-07-04 Thread Braden Shepherdson
Don Stewart wrote: Could we start documenting this on the wiki ? It will be interesting to keep track of what we have tried, what attempts failed and why. -- Don I've added some new sections to the top of the wiki page, above the original attempts. It's now quite long, since it contains

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell on ARM (was Re: ANN: Topkata)

2008-07-02 Thread L.Guo
02:57:38 Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell on ARM (was Re: ANN: Topkata) Cool! By cross-compilation, I assume you mean, a version of GHC which runs on x86, but generates ARM assembly? Another option might be to use a nintendo DS emulator which has been configured to support more RAM and CPU

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell on ARM (was Re: ANN: Topkata)

2008-07-02 Thread Don Stewart
#PortingGHCtoanewplatform -- L.Guo 2008-07-02 - From: Jeremy Shaw At: 2008-06-28 02:57:38 Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell on ARM (was Re: ANN: Topkata) Cool! By cross-compilation, I assume

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell on ARM (was Re: ANN: Topkata)

2008-06-28 Thread Adrian Hey
Hello Jeremy, Jeremy Apthorp wrote: Next year I'll be working on a project for my undergraduate computing course at UNSW that will involve getting GHC to target the Nintendo DS. It'll require cross-compilation, because the DS isn't powerful enough to actually run GHC (4M main ram and a 66MHz

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell on ARM (was Re: ANN: Topkata)

2008-06-27 Thread Jeremy Shaw
At Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:57:29 +1000, Jeremy Apthorp wrote: Next year I'll be working on a project for my undergraduate computing course at UNSW that will involve getting GHC to target the Nintendo DS. It'll require cross-compilation, because the DS isn't powerful enough to actually run GHC (4M

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell on ARM (was Re: ANN: Topkata)

2008-06-26 Thread Jeremy Shaw
At Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:43:45 -0400, Braden Shepherdson wrote: I recently acquired the ARM-based Nokia N810 (and 3 it), powered by Maemo. Running a uname -a on it: I might be one to attempt this, as I know C and ARM-ish asm decently well and have a powerful desktop to compile on. I have no

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell on ARM (was Re: ANN: Topkata)

2008-06-26 Thread Jeremy Apthorp
2008/6/25 Braden Shepherdson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jeremy Shaw wrote: If any does attempt to build for the ARM, please, please, please, document what you do in the wiki. And, if you do, edit the wiki as you go, you definitely won't be able to remember what you did after the fact. (Or, at the

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell on ARM (was Re: ANN: Topkata)

2008-06-24 Thread Braden Shepherdson
Jeremy Shaw wrote: If any does attempt to build for the ARM, please, please, please, document what you do in the wiki. And, if you do, edit the wiki as you go, you definitely won't be able to remember what you did after the fact. (Or, at the very least, use some program to capture everything you