Ahh, excellent. I had no idea that this work was already done. Thanks. On Nov 15, 2011 4:59 PM, "Brian Mastenbrook" <<a href="mailto:brian@mastenbrook.net">brian@mastenbrook.net</a>> wrote: > > On 11/15/2011 01:35 PM, Deren Dohoda wrote: >> >> It looks like everything is moving ahead fine for the Raspberry Pi, a >> ridiculously inexpensive single-board computer based on ARM. The >> mailing list here doesn't have a lot of discussion on ARM except as it >> related to things like tablets. While it might be fun to tinker on my >> phone with Racket, I could actually find better use for it on >> something like this in a very soft-time embedded situation. >> >> <a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/">http://www.raspberrypi.org/</a> >> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_pi">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_pi</a> >> >> Current plans include a Debian distribution, and a few others. What is >> the feasibility of getting Racket up here? What if GUI features were >> not included, would that help? I suddenly have dreams of a super cheap >> SBC running my racket applications on init... > > > Racket is already packaged by Debian on ARM. There is no current JIT support for ARM though, so things will be slower than they might otherwise be. > > Be wary of the "ultra cheap" part as well - by the time you add a power supply, case, WiFi card (if necessary), and storage you may be nearing the cost of the more powerful Cortex-A8 based Efika MX Smarttop. With 512MB of RAM instead of 256MB on the Raspberry Pi board, it should provide a more pleasant Racket experience. > > -- > Brian Mastenbrook > <a href="mailto:brian@mastenbrook.net">brian@mastenbrook.net</a> > <a href="http://brian.mastenbrook.net/">http://brian.mastenbrook.net/</a> > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users">http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users</a>