Re: PicoLisp on Raspi
On Fri 19 Sep 2014 15:47, Jakob Eriksson wrote: On September 19, 2014 at 3:18 PM Joe Bogner joebog...@gmail.com wrote: This might be off base, but is it within the realm of possibility to run PilMCU on a raspberry pi now or in the future? That's an accessible piece of hardware that many people already have (myself included). These people may also be willing to fund the work Raspi runs linux, so you can run PicoLisp on it right now. PilMCU is about new hardware chips. You could of course go the middle way, that could attract some attention: port PicoLisp to bare Raspberry Pi hardware. Also an interesting prospect. But the ARM cpu in the pi is not a natural fit, it is not 64 bit, only 32. So it would be more of a promo thing. But very cool in its own right. Strange this came up just now - I am a long-time stalker on the mailing list, and had been brewing the idea for a long time to get the ball rolling for a Picolisp equivalent of this: http://common-lisp.net/project/movitz/movitz.html and ultimately perhaps one day a picolisp-based kernel, and maybe even a predominantly picolisp-OS (...I like to dream big). I am for sure much more excited about this latest picolisp-machine announcement though (LISP machines are back! Their time has come! Mwahahahaha!), but there is probably still a good reason to also go the middle way too, for the reasons already mentioned - to gain attention and to do meaningful performance comparisons to existing software. FWIW: I am totally up for contributing to PilMCU, RasPicolisp or Picolix86_64p in any way that I can. Count me in. -- Rowan Thorpe PGP fingerprint: BB0A 0787 C0EE BDD8 7F97 3D30 49F2 13A5 265D CCBD There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem. - Harold Stephens -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
Re: PicoLisp on Raspi
I too was looking into creating an FPGA implementation of picolisp and am very excited about this. A developer board which already runs Linux but also has an FPGA onboard may be worth exploring. Like this one: http://shop.adapteva.com/collections/parallella/products/parallella-16-desktop-computer Perhaps the picolisp chip could offload calculations to the 16 core coprocessor for calculation intensive applications. In any case this is very exciting for many reasons and I'm happy to test and help however I can. Great work. On Sep 19, 2014 11:20 AM, Rowan Thorpe ro...@rowanthorpe.com wrote: On Fri 19 Sep 2014 15:47, Jakob Eriksson wrote: On September 19, 2014 at 3:18 PM Joe Bogner joebog...@gmail.com wrote: This might be off base, but is it within the realm of possibility to run PilMCU on a raspberry pi now or in the future? That's an accessible piece of hardware that many people already have (myself included). These people may also be willing to fund the work Raspi runs linux, so you can run PicoLisp on it right now. PilMCU is about new hardware chips. You could of course go the middle way, that could attract some attention: port PicoLisp to bare Raspberry Pi hardware. Also an interesting prospect. But the ARM cpu in the pi is not a natural fit, it is not 64 bit, only 32. So it would be more of a promo thing. But very cool in its own right. Strange this came up just now - I am a long-time stalker on the mailing list, and had been brewing the idea for a long time to get the ball rolling for a Picolisp equivalent of this: http://common-lisp.net/project/movitz/movitz.html and ultimately perhaps one day a picolisp-based kernel, and maybe even a predominantly picolisp-OS (...I like to dream big). I am for sure much more excited about this latest picolisp-machine announcement though (LISP machines are back! Their time has come! Mwahahahaha!), but there is probably still a good reason to also go the middle way too, for the reasons already mentioned - to gain attention and to do meaningful performance comparisons to existing software. FWIW: I am totally up for contributing to PilMCU, RasPicolisp or Picolix86_64p in any way that I can. Count me in. -- Rowan Thorpe PGP fingerprint: BB0A 0787 C0EE BDD8 7F97 3D30 49F2 13A5 265D CCBD There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem. - Harold Stephens -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
Re: PicoLisp on Raspi
Hi Joe, Jakob, On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 03:47:31PM +0200, Jakob Eriksson wrote: On September 19, 2014 at 3:18 PM Joe Bogner joebog...@gmail.com wrote: This might be off base, but is it within the realm of possibility to run PilMCU on a raspberry pi now or in the future? That's an accessible piece of hardware that many people already have (myself included). These people may also be willing to fund the work Raspi runs linux, so you can run PicoLisp on it right now. PilMCU is about new hardware chips. Right. If you already have a Raspberry Pi, you can simply type # apt-get install picolisp You could of course go the middle way, that could attract some attention: port PicoLisp to bare Raspberry Pi hardware. Also an interesting prospect. But the ARM cpu in the pi is not a natural fit, it is not 64 bit, only 32. So it would be more of a promo thing. But very cool in its own right. Right. BTW, what if we call the PilMCU board Strawberry Pil ? ♪♫ Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
