[racket-dev] ARM support in the JIT

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 8 17:22:02 EDT 2013

At Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:15:03 -0500, Brian Mastenbrook wrote:
> On 04/08/2013 03:58 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> > I've pushed changes to the JIT to add an ARM back-end, which is based
> > on Paulo César Pereira de Andrade's very nice implementation of GNU
> > lightning for ARM.
> 
> On what processors is this expected to work? In particular is the ARMv6 
> supported (Raspberry Pi)? I have one of those personally for testing.

I think ARMv4 is the lower bound. ARMv6 is supposed to work, so let me
know if it doesn't.

> I noticed that as part of this upgrade COPYING.txt was replaced with the 
> text of the GPLv3, and references to it replaced with COPYING_LESSER.txt 
> (which I'm assuming would be the LGPLv3), but I don't see the latter in git.

Thanks --- I'll fix that. (I forgot that new files under "doc" are
ignored by `git add' by default.)



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